Typeface
Arial
Verint uses the industry standardised sans-serif typeface, Arial. It has been carefully chosen to meet Verint's needs as a global technology company and design principles. Through it's industry proliferation, the Arial typeface comes pre-installed and has been optimized to run on the majority of devices, operating systems and web browsers. It is regarded as a web safe font.
font-stack
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
Type Scale
REMs are a way of setting font-sizes based on the font-size of the root HTML element. They also allow you to quickly scale an entire project by changing the root font-size (for example at a certain media query/screen size). For a more in depth rationale of why we have chose to use rem units, see https://engageinteractive.co.uk/blog/em-vs-rem-vs-px.
How to calculate PX from REM
Having chosen our default root at 16px, 1rem = 16px. To calculate the rem value to use from any given px size, the following calculation is used: px / 16 = rem. The table below is a quick cheat sheet for our most common rem conversions.
| rem | px | Actual size |
|---|---|---|
| 0.625rem | 10px | |
| 0.6875rem | 11px | |
| 0.75rem | 12px | |
| 0.875rem | 14px | |
| 1rem | 16px | |
| 1.125rem | 18px | |
| 1.25rem | 20px | |
| 1.5rem | 24px | |
| 1.75rem | 28px | |
| 2rem | 32px | |
| 2.25rem | 36px | |
| 2.625rem | 42px | |
| 3rem | 48px | |
| 3.375rem | 54px | |
| 3.75rem | 60px |
Typographic treatments
Font weight
Font weight is an important typographic style that can add emphasis and is used to differentiate content hierarchy. Font weight and size pairings must be carefully balanced. A bold weight will always have more emphasis than a lighter weight font of the same size. However, a lighter weight font can rank hierarchically higher than a bold font if the lighter weight type size is significantly larger than the bold.
Verint allows for a wide range of weights. However, only Semi-Bold, Regular, Light should be used for product design.
| Weight | Example |
|---|---|
| Font-weight: 300 / Light | |
| Font-weight: 400 / Normal | |
| Font-weight: 600 / Semi-bold |
Body copy
To maximize screen real estate we recommended a smaller 12px / 0.75rem body copy size for a standard UI console.
Line-height
Line-height, traditionally known as leading, is one of several factors that directly contribute to readability and pacing of copy. Line-heights are based on the size of the font itself. Ideal line-heights for standard copy have a ratio of 1:1.5 (typesize : line-height). For example, a type at 16px/1rem would have a line-height of 1.5rem/24px (16 x 1.5). The exception to this rule are headings, which need less spacing and therefore have a line-height ratio of 1:1.25.
| Line-height | Ratio |
|---|---|
| Standard UI | 1:1.5 |
| Headers | 1:1:25 |