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Typography
Thesis provides the user with three compatible styles – TheSans, TheMix and TheSerif – in an optically harmonious range of eight weights, including real italics for each weight. Consisting of three different font styles (TheSans, The Serif, & The Mix) the Thesis superfamily provides YVC designers with the flexibility and freedom to create interesting typographic layouts while staying within YVC’s font family. With 96 separate variations within these three font families, this robust collection should be used whenever possible. In situations where you are unable to use the Thesis fonts, please use our secondary font family, Open Sans.
Part of the Thesis superfamily, TheSans is a slightly varying weight sanserif font with 48 variations. Characterized by its open appearance and tall x-height, TheSans is a very readable font and should be considered the standard font to use in publications.
Part of the Thesis Superfamily, TheSerif is a slightly varying weight slab style serif font with 16 different variants. This font may be used in conjunction with TheSans to bring emphasis or style to a particular type element, or can be used as an alternative font.
Part of the Thesis Superfamily, TheMix incorporates elements from both TheSans and TheSerif. Using the uppercase letters from TheSans and lowercase letters from TheSerif this font gives a unique look that works great as subheadings under TheSans.
When the primary typeface is unavailable use YVC’s secondary typeface, Open Sans. This font is open source and provided by Google Fonts. Open Sans is readily available on most YVC computers.
Calibri and Cambria may also be used to replace Open Sans in applications like Word
and PowerPoint to improve accessibility.