SKC TYPOGRAPHY

The consistent use of typography aids in reinforcing the visual branding of SKC. The typographic program that SKC has selected includes a headline font, a heading, and brief body copy font family and a type heavy body copy family.

The large headline font of LITHOS PRO reads well, is clean and carries with it an approachable hand drawn feel that reflects the community nature of SKC.

The Source Sans Pro family is to be used in section headings and for brief stretches of body copy (2-5 paragraphs at a stretch). Use Source Sans Pro Bold sparingly as it is a very heavy font.

Baskerville Regular and Bold allow for a less stressful reading experience when large runs of type are involved. If your communication material is very type heavy please consider using the Baskerville family.

HEADLINE FONT

Download Lithos Pro Regular Here

Lithos Pro is a Premium font. Obtaining more weights of this font requires the purchase of the font from a service like, myfonts.com or adobe type kit.

HEADING AND SHORT PARAGRAPH FONT

Download Source Sans Pro Here

LONG PARAGRAPH FONT

Download Baskerville Here

While Baskerville comes with most operating systems, you may not have it. Baskerville is a classic premium font requiring payment for use. A version that is very similar under the name "Libre Baskerville" is available via the above link.

MORE THAN LETTERS

The designers of fonts have in some cases dedicated their entire lives to creating a single font. It can be a monumental effort that involves hours upon hours of drawing, calculating, redrawing analyzing letter forms and spaces between, below and above in both upper, and lower cases, regular, bold, italic weights and more. When a font has been selected for use, it is because of the way it looked in its originally designed form.

Please do not stretch or squish the fonts that Salish Kootenai College has selected to bear its name and message. Treat them with the same respect you treat our Seal and Charging Bison logo.

SKC TYPOGRAPHY IN ACTION