Typography

Our online typeface is Open Sans.
CSS font stack: font-family: "open_sansregular", Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif

In data tables, we often use a monospace font for numerical figures.
CSS font stack: Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace

Font sizes

Style Size

Heading 1

 2.25em/36px

Heading 2

 1.7em/27.2px

Heading 3

 1.35em/21.6px

Heading 4

 1.15em/18.4px

Paragraph text

1em/16px
Small 0.875em/14px

For information about writing online, please refer to the online writing guide (PDF).

Typographic patterns

This text is quoted. A block of quoted text like this is particularly useful when presented as a pull-quote within an article of text.

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This is a citation

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This is a figure caption

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Graduate students at Nova Scotia universities have been awarded scholarships to help them stay in the province to do research that could lead to new products and more opportunities.

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This is an abbreviation: CNS

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