STYLE_GUIDE.md

Style Guide for MDAnalysis

Name

When referring to the project we always capitalize as MDAnalysis (not MDanalysis or Mdanalysis or mdanalysis or MDANALYSIS).

In logo art we may break the name as

MD
Analysis

Colors

Logo Colors

• black #000000 (RGB 000000)
• gray #808080 (RGB 808080)
• orange #FF9200 (RGB FF9200)

Web site colors

MDAnalysis theme

• MDAnalysis orange: #FF9200
• MDAnalysis gray: #808080
• RTD dark gray: #343131 (from User Guide RTD dark gray)
• RTD light grey: #E6E6E6
• MDAnalysis black: #000000
• MDAnalysis white: #FFFFFF

Documentation colors

• MDAnalysis orange: #FF9200
• MDAnalysis gray: #808080
• MDAnalysis white: #FFFFFF
• MDAnalysis black: #000000
• Very light orange: #FFEBD0
• Code orange: #ca6500
• RTD dark grey: #343131
• RTD light grey: #e6e6e6

The User Guide CSS theme has some others for coloured elements, where we needed to differentiate between notes, warnings, etc. -- they have some pastel red/orange/yellows (backgrounds) and darker red/orange/yellows (text).

Typefaces

• The MDAnalysis logo typeface is "ZAG Bold" from https://www.dafont.com/de/zag.font (see MDAnalysis/UserGuide#11).
• We generally prefer sans serif fonts for our materials (Helvetica, Arial)