Branding Guidelines

Forem's design inspiration is meant to be a throwback. In personality and design, it is ATARI inspired. Magazines like PAPER are also an inspiration in terms of being a bold contrast with some more indy.

We also think in terms of how people use the Forem brand for their own purposes. Profiles are very much public-facing records of what people have put out into the world. dev.to/{username} is your developer identity.

Imagine a developer's face with the DEV heading above them. If we existed in the 80's, we would have been "DEV MAGAZINE," with the exact same branding.

• Joystick should be used for logos, not for headlines/phrases.
• Black and white is our default logo, but the logo can be drawn in any color.
• Forem/DEV is "old school cool."
• We use bold shadows (no gradient) for boxes.
• We have a minimal approach to importing dependencies, so few if any custom fonts on-site for that reason.
• Refer to the variables.scss file in our main repo to reference commonly-used colors and fonts.

• We use the Joystick font by Neale Davidson and Pixel Sagas for the DEV Logo. We have a commercial license.
• We use EmojiOne icons from JoyPixels. We have a commercial license.