World Master Chefs Society Brand Guidelines

11 Typography

Introduction

Type carries the Chapter’s voice before a word is read: engraved capitals for ceremony, a classical serif for headlines, and a readable book face for everything else.

Typefaces

Three web faces and two film faces, each with one job.

Aa

Cinzel

Wordmark, eyebrows, labels and buttons. Semibold, uppercase, tracked wide. Taken from Roman inscriptional capitals.

Aa

Cormorant Garamond

Headlines, quotes and display lines. Medium, sentence case, italic for emphasis.

Aa

Lora

Body copy, captions and long reading. Regular and italic.

Aa

Baskerville

Film titles, lower thirds and thumbnails. Regular, set large.

Aa

Avenir Next

Film labels and thumbnail roles. Medium, uppercase, tracked.

Type Hierarchy

How the faces stack from eyebrow to quote.

The World Master Chefs Society

Eyebrow

Cinzel Semibold · Uppercase · 12 to 16px · tracking 0.34em · master’s gold

A continental order of culinary mastery.

Headline

Cormorant Garamond Medium · Sentence case · 56 to 88px on screen

Recognise. Mentor. Convene.

Section Title

Cinzel Semibold · Uppercase · 24 to 32px · tracking 0.08em

An international honours society for chefs, founded in 1947. The North American Chapter convenes the continent’s master chefs in service of craft, mentorship and hospitality.

Body

Lora Regular · 16 to 18px · line height 1.7

Knowledge is light.

Quote

Cormorant Garamond Italic · 28 to 40px