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This section defines the standard University of Puget Sound campus stationery pieces.

Letterhead & Envelopes

Stationery examples

Stationery and business cards are highly visible components of a brand. To ensure a consistent look for all correspondence, a standard letterhead, envelopes, and business cards have been developed. 

Letterhead 
Logo 

  • Bleed: Full top bleed 
  • Color: Reversed out of maroon (Pantone® 188) field 

Footer Address Line 

  • Flush left; address elements separated by two spaces 
  • Color: Pantone® Cool Gray 9 
  • Font: Adobe Garamond Regular Pro 
  • Size: 8 
  • Leading: 10 

Envelope 
Logo 

  • Bleed: Full top bleed 
  • Color: Reversed out of maroon (Pantone® 188) field 

Return Address Block 

  • Flush left; two-line maximum 
  • Color: Pantone® Cool Gray 9 
  • Font: Adobe Garamond Regular Pro 
  • Size: 8 
  • Leading: 10

Business Cards

Business card examples

Editorial Standards 

  • Jr. and Sr. are abbreviated in names (including those in addresses) with a period following the abbreviation and no comma in front of it; a middle initial in a name is followed by a period. 
  • Names and titles are on separate lines. 
  • When abbreviating Street, Avenue, Boulevard, Highway, Court, Road, Suite, etc., follow abbreviation with a period. 
  • Post office box is always abbreviated as P.O. Box, with periods. 
  • Directional words in a street address should be abbreviated with no period between letters (52nd NE). 
  • Use “T:,” “F:,” and “M:” to designate telephone, fax, and mobile numbers with one space between colon and the number. 
  • Do not include the “1” in front of a toll-free phone number. 
  • Use periods to separate number groups in phone and fax numbers. 
  • Separate telephone and fax numbers with two spaces when they appear on the same line.

Email Signature

Email signature example

Email correspondence from @pugetsound.edu addresses represents Puget Sound. Do not include personal email addresses, taglines, and other customizations. 

Email signatures are single spaced in uppercase and lowercase letters using Sans-Serif size Normal in black, except for the university name, which appears in all uppercase letters using Garamond size Normal in Puget Sound maroon.