Proximus design system
Important information:
Using the Design System implies following some rules: the code should be valid and same as the Design System. Meaning custom HTML & CSS override are forbidden.
Please don't forget to read Usage part of each element.

Headings

Headings are from a range of 1 through 6. Headings are the largest text on the screen, reserved for short, important text or numerals.

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Overview

Headings help users and search engines to read and understand text. Headings also define which parts of your content are important, and show how they're interconnected

Why empty heading tags are bad for accessibility?

If you have an empty heading, a screen reader will alert the user that a heading is present, but it will not read out any text because there is none available to read. This may confuse users and could keep them from accessing the information on the page. If a user is navigating the contents of the page and they encounter an empty heading, they may move forward to the next heading in the list and could potentially miss entire sections of content.


Headings and subtitles

Subtitles are complementary to headings. They are typically reserved to give more context to a heading, they are only available underneath headings H1 and H2.

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Theme specificities

Headings are important elements of a consistency brand. They help to recognize the brand and it's why it exists some specificities regarding the different themes of the Proximus Design Sytem.

Proximus theme

Headings differentiation by Business Unit

The weights of the headings are used to identify a Business Unit's visual language.
This is one of the ways to create different visual languages between Residential, Business, and Enterprise.

Residential headings

Aa

Proximus ExtraBold

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuw
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
0123456789!"·$%&/()=

Business headings

Aa

Proximus Regular

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuw
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
0123456789!"·$%&/()=

Enterprise headings

Aa

Proximus Light

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuw
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQR
0123456789!"·$%&/()=

Headings are from a range of 1 through 6 and this differentiation is applied on headlings from H1 to H3.

Residential headings

H1

H2

Business headings

H1

H2

Enterprise headings

H1

H2

Others headings, from 4 to 6, are all in the same font weight.

Residential, Business & Enterprise headings

H3

H4

H5
H6

A differenciation on the subtitle font family is also foreseen to have a good balance with the heading.

Residential headings

H1

Subtitle

Business headings

H1

Subtitle

Enterprise headings

H1

Subtitle

Scarlet theme

Expressive headings

Expressive type allows for a more fancy, graphic use of type.
Headings are from a range of 1 through 6 and this effect is applied on headlings from H1 to H2.


Colors

The color are the same for all the headings and subtitles depending of the mode:

Positive mode

On a light theme, headings are purple

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5
H6

When there are too much purple headings on the same area and only for headings from H4 to H6, it's allowed to display them in black on a light theme.

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5
H6
Negative mode

On a dark theme, headings are white

H1

H2

H3

H4

H5
H6

Best practices


Heading 1

Subtitle

Lorem ipsum color sit amet

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Do


Heading 1

Subtitle

Lorem ipsum color sit amet

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Dont


Heading 1

Subtitle

Lorem ipsum color sit amet

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Do


Heading 1

Subtitle

Lorem ipsum color sit amet

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

Dont


Alignment

As for the body text, headings are also left-aligned on all breakpoints.

Heading 1

Subtitle

Lorem ipsum color sit amet

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.

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Sizes and colors

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Heading by Business Unit

The weights of the headings are used to identify a Business Unit's visual language.
This is one of the ways to create different visual languages between Residential, Business, and Enterprise.

Font family change forbidden

It is forbidden to change the font family as they are set per Business units with body classes: rs-se , rs-ebu .

Accessibility

Don't forget to respect title's semantic. <h*> tag are not used for their size but to organize content of a page. See more details New window. If you need a specific size, use classes.

Residential : RES

H1 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H2 - Lorem ipsum dolor

Subtitle - Lorem ipsum dolor

H3 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H4 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H5 - Lorem ipsum dolor
H6 - Lorem ipsum dolor

SE

To switch the style corresponding to the SE business unit, put the class rs-se to the parent.

Best practice

The ideal case is to impacting the whole page with the addition on the body to impact the whole page.

H1 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H2 - Lorem ipsum dolor

Subtitle - Lorem ipsum dolor

H3 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H4 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H5 - Lorem ipsum dolor
H6 - Lorem ipsum dolor

EBU

To switch the style corresponding to the EBU business unit, put the class rs-ebu to the parent.

H1 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H2 - Lorem ipsum dolor

Subtitle - Lorem ipsum dolor

H3 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H4 - Lorem ipsum dolor

H5 - Lorem ipsum dolor
H6 - Lorem ipsum dolor

Negative headings

It is possible to change the color of the text to white by using the rs-txt-c2 class.

h1 or rs-tit1

h2 or rs-tit2

h3 or rs-tit3

h4 or rs-tit4

h5 or rs-tit5
h6 or rs-tit6

Change visually heading size

Title classes are designed with the following name: rs-tit* . * is a number from 1 to 6.

H2 like H6 with rs-tit6

H3 like H2 with rs-tit2

H6 like H1 with rs-tit3

Heading with subtitle

The spacing between titles and subtitles has been studied graphically and therefore a class must be used to notify them as title and subtitle. Simply add to the title the class rs-has-subtit and to the subtitle the class rs-subtit .

Title class="rs-has-subtit" directly followed by another title

class="rs-subtit" = Secondary title preceeded by another title