What font does W3Schools use?

W3Schools’s website uses four typefaces: Source Sans Pro (headings and body text), self-hosted; Source Sans Pro Topnav, self-hosted; W3HomeSSans, self-hosted; W3HomeSMono, self-hosted.

What are W3Schools’s brand colours?

The main colours on w3schools.com are Deep Sea Green (#04AA6D), Black (#0F172A), Slate Grey (#64748B), Khaki (#FFF4A3), Medium Blue (#0000CD) and Medium Violet Red (#990055).

What colour is W3Schools’s text and background?

Body text is #000000 on a #FFFFFF background.

Where is W3Schools’s logo from?

The logo shown in this guide was found on w3schools.com’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check W3Schools’s own brand or press page.

Is this W3Schools’s official style guide?

No. SiteStyleGuide made it from w3schools.com’s public web pages on 30 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with W3Schools. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

Unofficial A style guide made by SiteStyleGuide from w3schools.com’s public web pages. Not affiliated with or endorsed by W3Schools. The real site is w3schools.com ↗

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W3Schoolsstyle guide

W3Schools’s website (w3schools.com) uses Source Sans Pro for its headings and body text. Its palette is led by Deep Sea Green (#04AA6D), Black (#0F172A) and Slate Grey (#64748B), with #000000 text on #FFFFFF. Captured from the live site on 30 October 2026.

Website: w3schools.com
Typefaces: Source Sans Pro, Source Sans Pro Topnav, W3HomeSSans
Palette: 4 neutrals, 12 colours, 3 gradients
Captured: 30 Oct 2026 · added by @sitestyleguide

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Screenshot of the w3schools.com homepage on a phone — On a phone, 390 px.

Identity & metadata

What browsers, search engines and social cards show before anyone reaches the page, from the homepage’s <head>.

Title &
description

Page title: W3Schools Online Web Tutorials; ● 30 / 60 characters
Meta description: Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML and more.; ▲ 168 / 160 characters
Site name: W3Schools
og:title: W3Schools.com
og:description: W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Covering popular subjects like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL, Java, and many, many more.
Language: en-US
Theme colour: #ffffff

In search results

W3Schoolshttps://www.w3schools.com/

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, Bootstrap, Java, XML an…

When shared

w3schools.com

W3Schools.com

W3Schools offers free online tutorials, references and exercises in all the major languages of the web. Cover…

Logo & favicons

Found as: image in the header. SVG, 169 × 193.

Logo

On white

On black

On Deep Sea Green

Favicons

7 found

512 px · SVG mask-icon
512 px · PNG manifest
192 px · PNG manifest
180 px · PNG apple-touch-icon
48 px · ICO icon
32 px · PNG icon
16 px · PNG icon

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Light browser tab

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Dark browser tab

Colour

Read from the site’s stylesheets and weighted by where each colour is used. Names are the nearest standard colour name. Click a swatch to copy its hex code.

Contrast is against the site’s text colour (#000000) and white, using WCAG 2 ratios: 4.5 for body text, 3 for large text.

Colour

Balance

How much each colour is used

White 36.7%
Black 13%
Deep Sea Green 12.4%
Black 7.7%
Cool Charcoal 7.1%
Off White 6.5%
Slate Grey 2.5%
Khaki 2.5%
Medium Blue 2.5%
Medium Violet Red 2.5%
Sea Green 1.4%
Brown 1.2%
Medium Purple 1.2%
Deep Red 0.9%
Light Sea Green 0.9%
Light Red 0.9%

By how often each colour appears in the site’s CSS, weighted by where (body, headings, buttons), not by area on the screen.

Neutrals

Text, backgrounds and structure

White

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 0

On text
21.00:1 AAA

On white
—

Background, text, border · .w3s-my-learning.-side-nav-modal#w3s-myl-save-progress-info-modal > .-body > .-i, body
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 100

On text
—

On white
21.00:1 AAA

Text, background, border · inline style on , html
Cool Charcoal

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
25 21 0 79

On text
1.47:1 Fail

On white
14.26:1 AAA

Background, text, border · .homepage-refresh .edtabs button.on, #top-nav-bar #nav_services h4
Off White

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 0 0 13

On text
15.46:1 AAA

On white
1.36:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .grey-color, .w3-example-tab-header

Colours

Brand colours and accents, most used first

Deep Sea Green

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
98 0 36 33

On text
6.98:1 AA

On white
3.01:1 AA large

Background, text, border · .w3s-my-learning.-side-nav-modal#w3s-myl-save-progress-info-modal > .-body > .-i, a.btnsmall
Black

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
64 45 0 84

On text
1.18:1 Fail

On white
17.85:1 AAA

Text · #top-nav-bar .tnb-right-section .tnb-adventure-badge-title, #nav_tutorials .tutnav-main-title
Slate Grey

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
28 17 0 45

On text
4.41:1 AA large

On white
4.76:1 AA

Text · #nav_exercises .exnav-subtitle, #nav_exercises .exnav-quick-actions-title
Khaki

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 4 36 0

On text
18.72:1 AAA

On white
1.12:1 Fail

Text, background · .w3s-pathfinder.-teaser > .-inner-wrapper > .-main-section > .-inner-wrapper > ., #nav_tutorials h3
Medium Blue

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
100 100 0 20

On text
1.88:1 Fail

On white
11.16:1 AAA

Text · inline style on , .kotlinkeywordcolor
Medium Violet Red

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 44 40

On text
2.49:1 Fail

On white
8.45:1 AAA

Text · inline style on , .tagnamecolor
Sea Green

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
97 0 36 40

On text
5.67:1 AA

On white
3.70:1 AA large

Background, border, text · form.example button:hover, --primary-dark
Brown

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 75 75 35

On text
2.96:1 Fail

On white
7.08:1 AAA

Text · inline style on , .kotlinstringcolor
Medium Purple

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
39 60 0 4

On text
5.43:1 AA

On white
3.87:1 AA large

Background, text, graphic · #top-nav-bar .tnb-right-section .tnb-certificates-btn, #top-nav-bar .tnb-right-section .tnb-upgrade-btn
Deep Red

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 91 100 10

On text
4.43:1 AA large

On white
4.74:1 AA

Text, background, graphic · #tnb-login-dropdown-loginForm .tnb-login-dropdown-form-container #tnb-verificati, .w3-danger
Light Sea Green

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
57 0 54 31

On text
7.56:1 AAA

On white
2.78:1 Fail

Background, text, border · .loginmodaldiv button, td.gsc-search-button input.gsc-search-button
Light Red

HEX

RGB

HSL

OKLCH

CMYK
0 100 100 0

On text
5.25:1 AA

On white
4.00:1 AA large

Text, background · inline style on , .w3s-pathfinder .-btn.-variant-6::before

Gradients

radial-gradient(58% 46% at 50% 0%,#E9F6F0 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 72%)
radial-gradient(circle at 58.04px 56.96px, rgba(55, 166, 106, 0.33) 0%, rgba(57, 107, 154, 0.05) 100%)
linear-gradient(135deg,#EAF3FD 0%, 100%)

Typography

Faces from Google Fonts are shown in the real thing. Others are licensed to the site, so they show in your device’s copy if you have one, or a stand-in if not.

Source Sans Pro

Aa 400 Aa 700

Source Sans Pro

Self-hosted · weights 400, 600, 700 · headings, buttons · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 800

Source Sans Pro Topnav

Self-hosted · weights 400, 700, 800 · headings · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 700

W3HomeSSans

Self-hosted · weights 400, 600, 700 · headings · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

Aa 400 Aa 700

W3HomeSMono

Self-hosted · weights 400, 700 · buttons · shown in a stand-in if you don’t have it

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 ! ? & @ % $ – ’ “ ”

Type scale

From the site’s CSS

Heading 1 80px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools

Heading 2 32px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Heading 3 24px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Heading 4 20px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Heading 5 18px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Heading 6 16px weight 400 · Source Sans Pro

W3Schools Online Web Tutorials

Body 16px / 1.5 Segoe UI

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, B…

Paragraph 13.5px / 1.5 Source Sans Pro

Well organized and easy to understand Web building tutorials with lots of examples of how to use HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python, PHP, B…

Button 11px / 1 weight 700 · W3HomeSMono

Get started

Link 13px / normal weight 600 · W3HomeSSans

Sizes in use

Most common across the site

20pxline 1.2 · 16 rules
18pxline 1 · 32 rules
17pxline 22px · 27 rules
16pxline 1.5 · 38 rules
15pxline 1.5 · 46 rules
14pxline 1.5 · 78 rules
13pxline 1.6 · 45 rules
12pxline normal · 34 rules

Elements

The main button and link as the site’s CSS draws them, and the corner radii and shadows it uses most.

Elements

Button

Get started

.loginmodaldiv button · #4CAF50 · radius 5px

Corner radius

5px · 49×
8px · 36×
50% · 36×
6px · 18×
25px · 18×
10px · 14×

Shadows

0 2px 8px rgba(4, 170, 109, 0.12)
0 8px 40px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.18)
0 2px 8px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1)
0 2px 4px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.16), 0 2px 10px 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.12)

Layout

Breakpoints from the site’s media queries and the widths its content is held to, with how often each appears.

Grid

Breakpoints

399

500

520

600

688

768

992

1280

On a scale of 0 to 1440 px.

Content widths (max-width)

1750 px

1100 px

990 px

640 px

520 px

420 px

Notes

Plain checks on what was found. Worth fixing if you look after this site.

Notes

● FineThe title is 30 characters, short enough to show in full in search results.
▲ CheckThe description is 168 characters. Search results usually show about 160.

Questions

Quick answers, from the same capture as the rest of this guide.

Questions

What font does W3Schools use?: W3Schools’s website uses four typefaces: Source Sans Pro (headings and body text), self-hosted; Source Sans Pro Topnav, self-hosted; W3HomeSSans, self-hosted; W3HomeSMono, self-hosted.
What are W3Schools’s brand colours?: The main colours on w3schools.com are Deep Sea Green (#04AA6D), Black (#0F172A), Slate Grey (#64748B), Khaki (#FFF4A3), Medium Blue (#0000CD) and Medium Violet Red (#990055).
What colour is W3Schools’s text and background?: Body text is #000000 on a #FFFFFF background.
Where is W3Schools’s logo from?: The logo shown in this guide was found on w3schools.com’s homepage. For official logo files and usage rules, check W3Schools’s own brand or press page.
Is this W3Schools’s official style guide?: No. SiteStyleGuide made it from w3schools.com’s public web pages on 30 October 2026, and isn’t affiliated with W3Schools. Members can refresh a guide after 90 days to pick up changes.

Design tokens

Everything above as CSS variables, ready to paste into a project. Members can download the tokens as files for Figma (Tokens Studio), Style Dictionary and Tailwind.

Tokens

w3schools-com-tokens.css

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/* w3schools.com design tokens, from SiteStyleGuide (https://sitestyleguide.com/w3schools.com) */
:root {
  /* Colours */
  --text: #000000;
  --background: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-white: #FFFFFF;
  --colour-black: #000000;
  --colour-cool-charcoal: #282A35;
  --colour-off-white: #DDDDDD;
  --colour-deep-sea-green: #04AA6D;
  --colour-black-2: #0F172A;
  --colour-slate-grey: #64748B;
  --colour-khaki: #FFF4A3;
  --colour-medium-blue: #0000CD;
  --colour-medium-violet-red: #990055;
  --colour-sea-green: #059862;
  --colour-brown: #A52A2A;
  --colour-medium-purple: #9763F6;
  --colour-deep-red: #E51400;
  --colour-light-sea-green: #4CAF50;
  --colour-light-red: #FF0000;
  --gradient-1: radial-gradient(58% 46% at 50% 0%,#E9F6F0 0%,rgba(255,255,255,0) 72%);
  --gradient-2: radial-gradient(circle at 58.04px 56.96px, rgba(55, 166, 106, 0.33) 0%, rgba(57, 107, 154, 0.05) 100%);
  --gradient-3: linear-gradient(135deg,#EAF3FD 0%, 100%);

  /* Typefaces */
  --font-headings: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;
  --font-buttons: 'Source Sans Pro', sans-serif;
  --font-other: 'Source Code Pro', 'Menlo', 'Consolas', monospace;

  /* Type scale */
  --text-h1: 80px;
  --text-h2: 32px;
  --text-h3: 24px;
  --text-h4: 20px;
  --text-h5: 18px;
  --text-h6: 16px;
  --text-body: 16px;
  --leading-body: 1.5;
  --text-p: 13.5px;
  --leading-p: 1.5;
  --text-button: 11px;
  --leading-button: 1;
  --text-a: 13px;
  --leading-a: normal;

  /* Shape */
  --radius-1: 5px;
  --radius-2: 8px;
  --radius-3: 50%;
  --radius-4: 6px;
  --radius-5: 25px;
  --radius-6: 10px;

  /* Layout (breakpoints can’t be used in media queries as variables; they’re here for reference) */
  --breakpoint-1: 399px;
  --breakpoint-2: 500px;
  --breakpoint-3: 520px;
  --breakpoint-4: 600px;
  --breakpoint-5: 688px;
  --breakpoint-6: 768px;
  --breakpoint-7: 992px;
  --breakpoint-8: 1280px;
  --max-width-1: 1750px;
  --max-width-2: 1100px;
  --max-width-3: 990px;
  --max-width-4: 640px;
  --max-width-5: 520px;
  --max-width-6: 420px;
}

{
    "site": "w3schools.com",
    "source": "https://sitestyleguide.com/w3schools.com",
    "text": "#000000",
    "background": "#FFFFFF",
    "colours": [
        {
            "name": "White",
            "hex": "#FFFFFF",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                255,
                255
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#000000",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                0,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Cool Charcoal",
            "hex": "#282A35",
            "rgb": [
                40,
                42,
                53
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Off White",
            "hex": "#DDDDDD",
            "rgb": [
                221,
                221,
                221
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Sea Green",
            "hex": "#04AA6D",
            "rgb": [
                4,
                170,
                109
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Black",
            "hex": "#0F172A",
            "rgb": [
                15,
                23,
                42
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Slate Grey",
            "hex": "#64748B",
            "rgb": [
                100,
                116,
                139
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Khaki",
            "hex": "#FFF4A3",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                244,
                163
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Medium Blue",
            "hex": "#0000CD",
            "rgb": [
                0,
                0,
                205
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Medium Violet Red",
            "hex": "#990055",
            "rgb": [
                153,
                0,
                85
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Sea Green",
            "hex": "#059862",
            "rgb": [
                5,
                152,
                98
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Brown",
            "hex": "#A52A2A",
            "rgb": [
                165,
                42,
                42
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Medium Purple",
            "hex": "#9763F6",
            "rgb": [
                151,
                99,
                246
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Deep Red",
            "hex": "#E51400",
            "rgb": [
                229,
                20,
                0
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Sea Green",
            "hex": "#4CAF50",
            "rgb": [
                76,
                175,
                80
            ]
        },
        {
            "name": "Light Red",
            "hex": "#FF0000",
            "rgb": [
                255,
                0,
                0
            ]
        }
    ],
    "fonts": [
        {
            "name": "Source Sans Pro",
            "stack": "\"Source Sans Pro\", sans-serif",
            "weights": [
                400,
                600,
                700
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "Source Sans Pro Topnav",
            "stack": "\"Source Sans Pro Topnav\", sans-serif",
            "weights": [
                400,
                700,
                800
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "W3HomeSSans",
            "stack": "\"W3HomeSSans\", \"Segoe UI\", system-ui, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif",
            "weights": [
                400,
                600,
                700
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "W3HomeSMono",
            "stack": "\"W3HomeSMono\", monospace",
            "weights": [
                400,
                700
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        },
        {
            "name": "Source Code Pro",
            "stack": "'Source Code Pro', Menlo, Consolas, monospace",
            "weights": [
                400
            ],
            "source": "Self-hosted"
        }
    ]
}

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Captured from w3schools.com on 30 October 2026. SiteStyleGuide isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by W3Schools; this guide describes the public website for reference.

W3Schoolsstyle guide

Title &description

Logo

Favicons

Colour

Balance

Neutrals

White

Black

Cool Charcoal

Off White

Colours

Deep Sea Green

Black

Slate Grey

Khaki

Medium Blue

Medium Violet Red

Sea Green

Brown

Medium Purple

Deep Red

Light Sea Green

Light Red

Gradients

Source Sans Pro

Type scale

Sizes in use

Elements

Grid

Notes

Questions

Tokens

Share

Run w3schools.com?

Also set in Source Sans Pro

Hunter Store

Internal Revenue Service

Sniply

Accessify

Similar colours

GoFundMe

FotMob

cnrtl.fr

360官网 -360安全中心

Title &
description