Yale Stationery
The updated system of Yale stationery employs the key formal elements of Yale’s visual identity: the Yale Signature, the Yale Typeface, and Yale Blue. In order to broaden the range of possibilities for the stationery, and to forefront the many sub-entities within the University, the new stationery system encourages using the signature of Yale College, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, or one of the professional schools in lieu of the Yale Signature. Official Yale stationery is printed on “Lohmann Bond,” high-quality recycled paper watermarked with the Yale Shield. The updated stationery revives the traditional heraldry of the University.
To order official stationery, please contact Yale RIS.
Stationery design
With the Yale Signature
Variations
School signatures
Placement
Color
Stationery design
The updated system for Yale stationery establishes guidelines for combining the appropriate Signature with an optional secondary line of text (specifying an office or a department within that entity), and a block of contact information. All printed text on Yale stationery is set in the Yale Typeface, and users are encouraged to use either the Yale Typeface or Courier (typewriter type) for all correspondence.
All Yale stationery is typeset by Yale RIS according to updated guidelines, and printed on the University’s official watermarked, recycled Lohmann Bond.
To order stationery, please contact Yale RIS.
With the Yale Signature
Yale stationery utilizes the extended form of the Yale Signature, which spells out the complete institutional name, “Yale University.”
The Yale Signature may be used for central administrative stationery or in lieu of a school signature, as long as the secondary line and/or contact information make the Yale affiliation unambiguous.
Variations
The Yale or school signature should always appear in the same position and type size.
Depending on the situation, the optional secondary line of text may be stacked under the signature, or it may continue on the baseline of the signature. Longer secondary lines tend to work best beneath the signature, while shorter lines work well on the same line.
School signatures
Each professional school, the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Yale College has its own signature, which combines the shield of the entity with its name, set in the Yale Typeface.
These signatures can be used on stationery and can also be substituted for the Yale Signature in print and Web publications.
Download the signature for each school and Yale College.
Placement
The professional school signatures generally should be scaled, aligned, and positioned according to the guidelines outlined for the Yale Signature.
In most circumstances, the signatures of the Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies should be set up on two lines with a larger shield as shown here. All other signatures should remain on one line.
Color
Please refer to the color guidelines elaborated for the Yale Signature when using the school signatures.
Use the multiple-color versions of these signatures only in instances where the color of the signature will not clash with or upstage other colors in the publication.
