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What is the wallpaper?
This subtle, far-secondary graphic element can be used tone-on-tone, adding texture to a field of color.
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What are banners?
Topline messages that apply broadly to all audiences. They support key themes for Seattle Pacific University.
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What is Legacy Maroon?
This is Pantone 7421, our primary brand color.
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What is the SPU Flame?
This brand element is used as a rule of measure for the clear space around the logo.
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What is the Cross?
The symbol some are alarmed to see removed from SPU's previous logo.
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What is the corner highlight?
This is used as an alternative to the SPU Flame in the corner of the border.
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What are pillars?
Mid-tier messages that apply more specifically to the individual audience segments that Seattle Pacific University would like to engage.
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What is Warm Black?
Please do not call this secondary, dark color, 'plum,' rather refer to it with this somewhat oxymoronic term.
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What are 1 and .25 inches?
To make sure the full logo or flame never appear too small, these are the minimum width sizes, respectively.
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What is 208?
This Pantone Matching System number was our old Maroon.
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What are Falcon Red and Legacy Maroon?
These two colors build the gradient used in the frame brandiment.
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What are 1. prospective undergraduate students, 2. prospective graduate students, 3. current students, 4. parents and guardians, and 5. alumni and donors.
Besides corporate partners, faculty and staff, these are two of five remaining pillar audiences.
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What is Flacon Red?
This vibrant, high-energy color reinforces our brand personality of bravery, curiosity, candor, sociability, and intention. It should be used sparingly and in contrast to Legacy Maroon.
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What are brand values?
These reflect the essential character and quality of a Seattle Pacific University experience, and serve as organizing principles to guide strategic decisions in everything we do.
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What is sentence case?
The standard for headline capitalization that has replaced our previous standard of title case. It designates that, with the exception of proper nouns, only the first word of a headline is capitalized.
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What is using more than one element at a time?
An important rule to remember when utilizing the brandiments to avoid creating a too-busy design.
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What is "copy and paste"?
A messaging matrix IS NOT this kind of resource. Rather, it is a tool for communicators to help ensure that the value and distinctives of Seattle Pacific are evident all the time, no matter the audience or context of communication.
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What is Legacy Maroon 2?
The SPU Flame is to be this color when the logo is on white or light backgrounds.
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What is Faith for the Future?
This brand essence is the heart and soul of our brand. It is a shorthand expression of the constant, fundamental quality Seattle Pacific University offers to every audience, worldwide.
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What is three?
The total number of logo layout variations comprised in SPU's old brand.
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What is SeaPacUni?
This graphic showed up early in Stoke's mockups, and has been seen on faculty retreat shirts, and more recently on UC retreat shirts.
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What are Academic rigor, Seattle advantage, and Christian faith?
The Seattle Pacific brand requires the constant reinforcement of these three key themes.
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What is CMYK?
The color values vendors will need if utilizing our colors for print, as opposed to RGB values, used for web.
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What are headlines?
Sang Blue is our hybrid typeface that doesn't follow the conventional patters of serif, sans, and slab, and should be used only for these parts of text.
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What is Univers?
The primary sans serif of SPU's old brand.
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