NHS-R Community

NHS-R Community Guidelines

_brand.yml

meta:
  name:
    short: NHSR
    full: NHS-R Community
  link:
    home: https://nhsrcommunity.com/
    brand-guidelines: https://nhsrway.nhsrcommunity.com/style-guides.html#branding

Colour

The NHS-R Community uses the NHS England colours for its branding¹. The colours used by NHS-R Community do not, currently, include any colours from any other nation in the UK.

_brand.yml

color:
  # NHS-R Community uses the NHS England colour palette
  # https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsidentity/identity-guidelines/colours/ used
  # under the OGL Licence v3.0
  palette:
    # Core neutrals (Level 2)
    white: '#FFFFFF'
    black: '#231F20'
    grey-dark: '#425563'
    grey-mid: '#768692'
    grey-pale: '#E8EDEE'

    # Blues (Level 1)
    blue-dark: '#003087'
    blue: '#005EB8'
    blue-bright: '#0072CE'
    blue-light: '#41B6E6'
    blue-aqua: '#00A9CE'

    # Greens (Level 3)
    green-dark: '#006747'
    green: '#009639'
    green-light: '#78BE20'
    green-aqua: '#00A499'

    # Purples and Pinks
    purple: '#330072'
    pink-dark: '#7C2855'
    pink: '#AE2573'

    # Reds
    red-dark: '#8A1538'
    red: '#DA291C'  # Emergency Services Red

    # Yellows and Orange
    orange: '#ED8B00'
    yellow-warm: '#FFB81C'
    yellow: '#FAE100'

    # Bootstrap color aliases - using closest matches without duplication
    indigo: blue-dark
    cyan: blue-aqua
    teal: green-aqua

  foreground: black
  background: white
  primary: blue
  secondary: grey-dark
  tertiary: grey-pale
  success: green
  danger: red
  warning: yellow-warm
  info: blue-light
  light: grey-pale
  dark: grey-dark

Typography

The NHS-R Community _brand.yml uses the NHS-recommended font, Arial, which is assumed to be available on the user’s system. It also includes commented code for the use of Frutiger, the official NHS font. Frutiger is a proprietary font that requires purchasing, so it is not used in any NHS-R Community products.

If Frutiger is available to an NHS organisation, then the lines of code under fonts: need to be uncommented and the output tested.

_brand.yml

typography:
  fonts:
    # Note: Frutiger is a licensed NHS England font that requires purchasing
    # https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhsidentity/identity-guidelines/fonts/
    # - family: Frutiger W01
    #   source: file
    #   files:
    #     - path: fonts/FrutigerLTW01-55Roman.ttf
    #     - path: fonts/FrutigerLTW01-65Bold.ttf
    #       weight: bold

    - family: Arial
      source: system

  base:
    family: Arial, sans-serif
    line-height: 1.5

  headings:
    family: Arial, sans-serif
    weight: 700
    line-height: 1.25
    color: blue

Logo

The NHS-R Community _brand.yml uses the NHS-R Community logo², which incorporates the R project logo³.

It should be noted that the logo for the NHS in England is protected by law and is trade marked so can be used by official documents in the work of the NHS. In order to use this please just replace the NHS-R Community logo with that of NHS.

_brand.yml

logo:
  # Download the NHS-R Community logo and store it next to _brand.yml
  # You'll have to update this section with the correct file names
  images:
    nhsr-logo:
      path: nhsr-logo.svg
      alt: NHS-R Community logo
  small: nhsr-logo
  medium: nhsr-logo
  large: nhsr-logo

Footnotes

1. Under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

2. Copies of the NHS-R Community’s logo are available under Creative Commons 1.0.

3. The R project logo is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International licence.