Typography – specifications
Our typeface For professional designers, a font with an alternative figure 1 is available from Monotype for tabular settings.
Gill Sans Light Gill Sans Light Italic Gill Sans Regular Gill Sans Italic Gill Sans Bold
Onscreen typefaces For certain applications such as presentations use Arial instead of Gill Sans. For internet applications use Verdana. Refer to the rules for each onscreen application area. For information on the typefaces in our product user interfaces, contact brand.helpdesk@philips.com. Typesetting • Range all text left • Never center or range text right • Always use standard letter and word spacing. Professional designers may adjust individual letter spacing in headlines manually to visually balance the spacing • Use type only in its standard form and do not alter it in any way, such as condensing or extending letters • Make sure the single and double quotation marks from the original text are transferred correctly when you copy it into another application • Do not use automatic hyphenation. Use manual hyphenation only for long words in a body text that cause a visually disturbing gap in a layout. Never hyphen headlines. For rules on copywriting and punctuation, see Copy.
The principles Brand identity guide, March 2008
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