WASH Cluster Style Guide V1 - June GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 1 28/06/16 11:32

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1 WASH Cluster Style Guide V1 - June 2016 GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 1 28/06/16 11:32

2 WASH Cluster Style Guide - General Guidelines General guidelines The objective of this style guide is to ensure that documents and materials produced by the Global WASH Cluster (GWC) are easily recognizable, in addition to promoting consistency in format and style. The GWC style guide should be applied in full for documents and materials that are defined as GWC-led activity outputs. The GWC logo should also be used in GWC collaborative activity outputs, similar to other collaborating entities. It also meant at providing guidance for fonts, color palettes and icons sued for WASH Cluster coordination. The style guide can be used as general administration tool by Information Managers and Cluster Coordinators for drafting reports, dashboards and other useful documents. In addition to that, administrative templates as well as further report and dashboard templates are complying with this style guide and are available on the GWC website in the Information Management Toolkit section ( Use of the GWC Style Guide at country level Further support for the adaptation and contextualisation of templates can be requested to globalwashcluster@gmail.com with Country Cluster Templates Request in the subject line. The details of the GWC style guide can also be adapted and used at country level for documents and materials that are produced as WASH Cluster-led documents, if agreed by the WASH Cluster members at country level. INDEX General Guidelines How to use the logo How to use the icons Color Pallete Fonts Other GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 2 28/06/16 11:32

3 WASH Cluster Style Guide - How to use the logo There is one approved logo for the Global WASH Cluster. It can be used by any WASH Cluster in any country if needed. It can be used in blue or in gray for printing purposes. The logo in different formats can be downloaded from the IMTK<1.General Templates and Tools<Logos and Icons ( WASH Cluster Water Sanitation Hygiene RGB 0 / 153 / 153 H 179 S 100% B 60% CMYK 81 / 20 / 42 / 1 # RGB 102 / 102 / 102 H 120 S 0% B 40% CMYK 60 / 51 / 51 / 20 # WASH Cluster Water Sanitation Hygiene The GWC Logo can be adapted in country for sectors/clusters using the logo package for country adaptation in the information management toolkit. In order to ensure it is legible, proportions, font, and colour should be kept. Countries can either adapt the vector file (svg or ai) and write their country names using the Cluster/ Sector logos for country adaptation. Alternately, they can also add a text box over the picture in Office (Use Paint) and write their country names using Arial Narrow Bold pt size when viewing the logos in full orginal size. Further help can be provided by the GWC (globalwashcluster@gmail.com). See examples below: <Add TEXT> <Add TEXT> GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 3 28/06/16 11:32

4 WASH Cluster Style Guide - How to use icons Humanitarian icons produced by the OCHA ( visual unit can be used with no restriction. Some icons were adapted to WASH specific needs. Those icons can be found in the Logos and Icons package. They can be used in any image format. For using them in Office documents, the PNG version is available and the color can be changed to the scale of colors that match the logo, see color pallet, you can change to the right color in the more colors section if needed. To use the icons in an Office document: Insert> Picture>Picture Tools>Format>Color>Recolor GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 4 28/06/16 11:32

5 WASH Cluster Style Guide - Color Palette General GWC RGB 0 / 153 / 153 H 179 S 100% B 60% CMYK 81 / 20 / 42 / 1 # RGB 0 / 0 / 0 H 59 S 29% B 0% CMYK 75 / 68 / 67 / 90 # RGB 51 / 51 / 51 H 59 S 0% B 20% CMYK 69 / 63 / 62 / 58 # RGB 0 / 102 / 102 H 179 S 100% B 40% CMYK 90 / 42 / 55 / 22 # RGB 102/ 102/ 102 H 120 S 0% B 40% CMYK 60 /51 / 51 / 20 # RGB 204 / 204 / 204 H 59 S 0% B 80% CMYK 19 / 15 / 16 / 0 #CCCCCC Water Sanitation Hygiene RGB 51 / 153 / 204 H 199 S 74% B 80% CMYK 73 / 26 / 5 / 0 #3399CC RGB 204 / 102 / 51 H 19 S 79% B 80% CMYK 15 / 71 / 92 / 3 #CC6633 RGB 0 / 153 / 51 H 139 S 100% B 60% CMYK 85 / 14 / 100 / 2 # GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 5 28/06/16 11:32

6 WASH Cluster Style Guide - Fonts To make it simple, Arial Narrow font shall be used in even sizes using colors from the general GWC color pallet. Do not use sizes under 8 pts for printing purposes and under 6 for digital documents. Title, Arial Narrow Bold Body, Arial Narrow Highlights, Arial Narrow Italic Primary GWC Colors RGB 0 / 153 / 153 H 179 S 100% B 60% CMYK 81 / 20 / 42 / 1 # Secondary GWC Colors RGB 0 / 102 / 102 H 179 S 100% B 40% CMYK 90 / 42 / 55 / 22 # RGB 0 / 0 / 0 H 59 S 29% B 0% CMYK 75 / 68 / 67 / 90 # RGB 102/ 102/ 102 H 120 S 0% B 40% CMYK 60 /51 / 51 / 20 # RGB 51 / 51 / 51 H 59 S 0% B 20% CMYK 69 / 63 / 62 / 58 # GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 6 28/06/16 11:32

7 WASH Cluster Style Guide - Other Headings A hierarchy of font sizes and styles (bold, underlined, italicized) should be used to differentiate between headings, subheadings, and sub-sub headings. Avoid using italics and underlined, and bold and underlined at the same time. The first word of the heading should be capitalized, but not the subsequent words unless they are the name of an organization or a title. If the document is long, then it is advisable to use numbers for headings and subheadings, eg. Section 1,Section 1.2, Section 1.2.1, and so forth. Paragraphs and text alignment Paragraphs of text should begin left justified, without indent, and the body of the text should be justified left to right. Text in boxes can be either left justified or not, whichever one is deemed most user friendly by the editorial team. Page numbers Page numbers should always be used. These should be place at the bottom of the page on the outer side of the document, i.e. away from the spine or binding. Photo credits Where possible, credit details should be noted below the photograph, including name of the photographer and year in which the photograph was taken. Alternatively, a list of credits can be put in the acknowledgements section. References Appropriate acknowledgement should be made to individuals and materials that are incorporated into GWC documents. This can be either as a footnote on the bottom of the page, or can be acknowledged in a reference list by chapter at the end of the document, so long as adequate bibliographic/source information is supplied. Spelling The British spelling, as opposed to US spelling, should be used. The authority for spelling and hyphenation is the Concise Oxford English Dictionary, 11th edition (Oxford University Press, Oxford and New York, 2004). Abbreviations and acronyms Abbreviations and acronyms are written without full stops, eg. WFP as opposed to W.F.P. Words or titles that occur only once or twice in the text should not be abbreviated. If a title occurs many times in a document, a short form may be used. Acronyms are written entirely with capital letters. They should be used sparingly, and only when the information is repeated more than once or twice in the document. The full information should be given the first time it is mentioned, followed by the acronym in parentheses, which can then be used with subsequent references. Acronyms from languages other than the language of the document should be used only if the entire information can be made clear in the language of the document. Numbers In general, numbers under 10 should be expressed in words, e.g. eight and NOT 8. Numbers 10 and above should normally be expressed in figures, except when they occur at the beginning of the sentence. In that case, the numbers should be spelled out. For any questions or queries regarding this style guide, please write to globalwashcluster@gmail.com. GWC Style Guide 2016.indd 7 28/06/16 11:32