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Typography

Core Brand Fonts

Our core brand fonts embody Clemson's characteristic dichotomy — traditional yet innovative and fresh.

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Typography

Core Brand Fonts

Our core brand fonts embody Clemson's characteristic dichotomy — traditional yet innovative and fresh.

Primary Serif Typeface

Tiempos

Our primary serif typeface looks editorial yet fresh. This typeface proved itself to be a solid embodiment of the Clemson dichotomy – traditional yet modern and innovative. Offering a wide range of faces, particularly in its text set, it is more legible than past typefaces, including Goudy. Its “fine” set of styles offer sharp serifs and high contrast, adding to the legibility.

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Tiempos Headline

Light
Light Italic
Regular
Regular Italic
Medium
Medium Italic
Semibold
Semibold Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
Black
Black Italic

Tiempos Text

Regular
Regular Italic
Medium
Medium Italic
Semibold
Semibold Italic
Bold
Bold Italic

Tiempos Fine

Light
Light Italic
Regular
Regular Italic
Medium
Medium Italic
Semibold
Semibold Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
Black
Black Italic

Primary Sans Serif Typeface

Trade Gothic Next

The primary sans serif typeface provides more diversity in an existing font. Clemson already has invested heavily in the use of Trade Gothic. This new, refined version adds some additional styles and weights to the family of fonts already in use campuswide. A “draftsman” font, this mechanical, tactile and architectural font fits Clemson’s work ethic, serving as the humble, perhaps more blue-collar font of our font family.

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Trade Gothic Next

Light
Light Italic
Regular
Regular Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
Heavy
Heavy Italic

Trade Gothic Next Condensed

Regular
Regular Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
Heavy
Heavy Italic

Trade Gothic Next Compressed

Regular
Bold
Black

Secondary Sans Serif Typeface

Biotif

An alternate sans serif typeface, Biotif presents as a slightly more rounded geometric sans serif and has a particularly modern and cutting-edge aesthetic to it and presents as the most dramatic change to our typeface family. Biotif feels modern and innovative; it looks toward future discovery rather than past achievements and experiences, embodying Clemson’s goal to be a top research institute solving global problems.

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Biotif

ExtraLight
ExtraLight Italic
Light
Light Italic
Book
Book Italic
Medium
Medium Italic
Semibold
Semibold Italic
Bold
Bold Italic
ExtraBold
ExtraBold Italic
Black
Black Italic

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Alternative Core Brand Fonts

Graphic design and digital content creation have evolved, and so have the tools available to help creators. If licensed core brand fonts or Adobe fonts are not available in certain systems, the alternatives below are acceptable. DO NOT upload licensed brand fonts to these platforms. Instead, select the appropriate alternative font from your systems’s font list.

Core Brand Font Alternatives for Common Platforms
Canva Adobe Express Microsoft Office Cloud Fonts Web Fallback Fonts
Trade Gothic Next LT Libre Franklin Trade Gothic Next LT Franklin Gothic Franklin Gothic or Verdana
Tiempos Source Serif Pro Dejanire Headline/Text Sabon Next LT Times New Roman
Biotif Garet Sofia Pro Century Gothic Century Gothic