Intel

Intel Corporation is the silicon company behind the Core, Xeon, and Arc lines and the modern Intel Foundry business. The 2020 brand refresh replaced Intel's long-running "swoosh" identity with a flat, geometric wordmark in Intel Classic Blue (#0068B5), paired with a bright Intel Energy Blue (#00C7FD) for highlights and active states. The voice on intel.com is technical and enterprise-leaning; the visual treatment is light-first with a near-white canvas, carbon greys for surfaces and text, and the two blues carrying primary action and accent roles.

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Intel

[email protected]

Intel Corporation is the silicon company behind the Core, Xeon, and Arc lines and the modern Intel Foundry business. The 2020 brand refresh replaced Intel's long-running "swoosh" identity with a flat, geometric wordmark in Intel Classic Blue (#0068B5), paired with a bright Intel Energy Blue (#00C7FD) for highlights and active states. The voice on intel.com is technical and enterprise-leaning; the visual treatment is light-first with a near-white canvas, carbon greys for surfaces and text, and the two blues carrying primary action and accent roles.

Tags: intel, hardware, cpu, silicon, semiconductor, blue, enterprise

Atoms

Palette

Intel · [email protected] · Proprietary — All Rights Reserved

Intel's 2020 brand refresh moved the company off its long-standing navy "Intel Blue" onto a paired-blue system: Intel Classic Blue (#0068B5) as the primary identity blue used on the logo and CTAs, with Intel Energy Blue (#00C7FD) as the bright accent for highlights and active states. The supporting palette declared on the live site is a tight neutral ramp from near-white (#F7F7F7) through carbon greys to a dark canvas (#262626), with deeper navy variants (#004A86, #0046C8, #000F28) reserved for hover / pressed states and for high-emphasis hero surfaces.

Fonts

Role Font License Classification
heading Inter ([email protected]) OFL-1.1 sans-serif
body Inter ([email protected]) OFL-1.1 sans-serif
mono JetBrainsMono Nerd Font ([email protected]) OFL-1.1 monospace

Swatches

ID Name Value
classic-blue Intel Classic Blue #0068B5
energy-blue Intel Energy Blue #00C7FD
blue-700 Blue 700 #004A86
blue-800 Blue 800 #0046C8
blue-900 Blue 900 #000F28
carbon-web Carbon Web #F7F7F7
carbon-100 Carbon 100 #E7E7E7
carbon-200 Carbon 200 #D7D7D7
carbon-400 Carbon 400 #999FA9
carbon-500 Carbon 500 #6A6D75
carbon-600 Carbon 600 #525252
carbon-800 Carbon 800 #262626
white White #FFFFFF
black Black #000000

Mode role mappings

Light mode

Role Swatch Hex
background white #FFFFFF
surface carbon-web #F7F7F7
surface-elevated white #FFFFFF
text-primary carbon-800 #262626
text-secondary carbon-600 #525252
text-tertiary carbon-500 #6A6D75
primary classic-blue #0068B5
primary-hover blue-700 #004A86
accent energy-blue #00C7FD
accent-hover classic-blue #0068B5
border carbon-200 #D7D7D7

Dark mode

Role Swatch Hex
background blue-900 #000F28
surface carbon-800 #262626
surface-elevated blue-800 #0046C8
text-primary white #FFFFFF
text-secondary carbon-200 #D7D7D7
text-tertiary carbon-400 #999FA9
primary energy-blue #00C7FD
primary-hover classic-blue #0068B5
accent energy-blue #00C7FD
accent-hover classic-blue #0068B5
border carbon-600 #525252

Brand semantic roles

Colors

Role Swatch Hex
identity white #FFFFFF
on-identity carbon-800 #262626
primary classic-blue #0068B5
primary-hover blue-700 #004A86
accent energy-blue #00C7FD
accent-hover classic-blue #0068B5
mark classic-blue #0068B5
background-light white #FFFFFF
background-dark blue-900 #000F28
surface-light carbon-web #F7F7F7
surface-dark carbon-800 #262626
text-primary-light carbon-800 #262626
text-primary-dark white #FFFFFF
text-secondary-light carbon-600 #525252
text-tertiary-light carbon-500 #6A6D75
border-light carbon-200 #D7D7D7

Typography

Role Font role key
display heading
prose body
code mono

Rules

🛑 error (6)

colorChoiceroles.colors.mark

  • allowed: classic-blue, black, white
  • forbidden: energy-blue, blue-700, blue-800, carbon-400, carbon-600

The 2020 wordmark fills with Intel Classic Blue (#0068B5) on light surfaces, or with monochrome black-on-light / white-on-dark when a one-color treatment is required. Energy Blue is the accent — used as a highlight color alongside the mark, never as the mark fill itself.

forbiddenTreatmentlogo

  • treatments: stretched, rotated, recolored, drop-shadow, gradient-fill, on-busy-photo, outlined

The Intel mark is a fixed-proportion geometric wordmark. Recoloring (e.g., filling with Energy Blue or with a carbon grey), skewing, gradient-filling, drop-shadowing, or placing the mark on a busy photo conflicts with the restrained 2020 identity as it appears on intel.com.

contrastRatiotext-primary

  • against: background
  • minRatio: 4.5
  • standard: WCAG-AA

Carbon 800 (#262626) on white (#FFFFFF) measures ~14:1 — clears WCAG AA at the body-text floor of 4.5:1 with meaningful headroom. The enterprise reading posture on intel.com justifies the AA target as a hard floor.

contrastRatioroles.colors.primary

  • against: background
  • minRatio: 4.5
  • standard: WCAG-AA

Classic Blue (#0068B5) on white measures ~5.6:1 — clears WCAG AA for body text, important because intel.com uses Classic Blue for inline links inside paragraph text where the 4.5:1 body-text floor (not the 3:1 large-text floor) applies.

colorChoiceroles.colors.primary

  • allowed: classic-blue, blue-700, energy-blue
  • forbidden: blue-800, blue-900, carbon-800

The identity-primary role is filled by Classic Blue (default) or Energy Blue (on dark surfaces, where Classic Blue loses contrast). The deeper saturated blues (#0046C8, #000F28) are hero-canvas colors, not action colors — using them as the primary affordance breaks the established 2020 hierarchy.

accessibilityRequirement*

  • standard: WCAG-AA
  • criterion: 1.4.3

WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. The carbon-on-white text pairings and Classic Blue links all clear AA at the body-text floor. AA is the appropriate target for an enterprise marketing surface with mixed-density information.

⚠️ warning (1)

contextRestrictionroles.colors.accent

  • forbiddenContexts: body-text, long-form-reading
  • allowedContexts: highlight, active-state, data-viz, hover-affordance

Energy Blue (#00C7FD) is the bright accent introduced in the 2020 refresh. It functions at highlight and active- state scales but falls below the AA body-text contrast floor on the white canvas (~2.1:1) and must not be used for running text.

💡 recommendation (1)

fontPairingtypography.display

  • requires: prose
  • minSizeRatio: 1.3

Intel's marketing surfaces use Intel One Body Text (proprietary) for both display and body, distinguished by size and weight rather than two families. Maintain at least a 1.3× ratio between display and prose to preserve hierarchy when one family carries both roles.

Provenance

  • Source: https://www.intel.com/
  • License: Proprietary — All Rights Reserved
  • Attribution: Intel Corporation — identity values captured from the deployed stylesheet on intel.com (clientlib-base.min.css and intel-fonts.css under the --ighf-h-color-* / Intel One font- family declarations). Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Core, Intel Xeon, Intel Arc, Intel Foundry, Intel One, and Intel Clear are trademarks of Intel Corporation.
  • Imported: 2026-05-18
  • Notes: Derived from live site CSS at https://www.intel.com/ on 2026-05-18; published brand guide at intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/brand-guidelines.html is unavailable (returns 404 to non-browser clients). The proprietary brand typeface family (Intel One, Intel Clear) is declared on intel.com but not publicly distributed. This atom references Inter@1 as the open-source rendering substitute. Scope is the parent corporate identity only — Core, Xeon, Arc, and Foundry sub-brands are deferred. assets: [] per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy.

Generated by the brand-atoms converter. Source: [email protected] from the encyclopedia.

Components — same template, themed by Intel

Every block below renders from the resolved palette + font references on this brand. Swap the brand and the same template re-themes — no per-brand component code required.

Intel

A clear hierarchy in Intel's typeface

Tertiary heading — supporting structure

Body copy renders in the brand's prose font on the brand's background. Inline links and highlighted phrases pick up the brand's primary and highlight roles. Code spans like brand.references.palette fall back to the monospace face.

A blockquote uses the brand's accent color as its rule. Useful for pulling tagline copy out of running prose.
Bulleted list
  • Bullet markers inherit the brand's primary color.
  • Item spacing reads as a deliberate vertical rhythm.
  • Nested items still resolve to the same primary.
    • Second-level item using the accent.
    • Third bullet wraps cleanly at narrow widths.
Numbered list
  1. Open the brand's resolved spec.
  2. Apply roles to the component template.
  3. Render the surface in the brand's identity.
  4. Audit the output against the typed rules.
Buttons
Callout boxes
Info

Neutral status — provides supplemental context without urgency. Uses the brand's primary as the rule.

Success

Confirms a completed action — palette role success determines the rule color.

Warning

Calls out something that needs attention but isn't an error — palette role warning.

Error

Surfaces a failure that blocks progress — palette role error. Use sparingly.

Table
Role Resolves to Mode
primarybrand color #1light + dark
accentbrand color #2light + dark
warningbrand warninglight + dark
errorbrand errorlight + dark

Atoms

Brand semantic roles

Brand-level role overrides on top of palette-default mappings. Each role resolves to a concrete swatch or font reference.

Colors

accent → energy-blue #00C7FD
accent-hover → classic-blue #0068B5
background-dark → blue-900 #000F28
background-light → white #FFFFFF
border-light → carbon-200 #D7D7D7
identity → white #FFFFFF
mark → classic-blue #0068B5
on-identity → carbon-800 #262626
primary → classic-blue #0068B5
primary-hover → blue-700 #004A86
surface-dark → carbon-800 #262626
surface-light → carbon-web #F7F7F7
text-primary-dark → white #FFFFFF
text-primary-light → carbon-800 #262626
text-secondary-light → carbon-600 #525252
text-tertiary-light → carbon-500 #6A6D75

Typography

code → mono JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
display → heading Inter
prose → body Inter

Palette mode mappings (from intel)

Light mode (11 roles)

accent → energy-blue
accent-hover → classic-blue
background → white
border → carbon-200
primary → classic-blue
primary-hover → blue-700
surface → carbon-web
surface-elevated → white
text-primary → carbon-800
text-secondary → carbon-600
text-tertiary → carbon-500

Dark mode (11 roles)

accent → energy-blue
accent-hover → classic-blue
background → blue-900
border → carbon-600
primary → energy-blue
primary-hover → classic-blue
surface → carbon-800
surface-elevated → blue-800
text-primary → white
text-secondary → carbon-200
text-tertiary → carbon-400

Rules (8 typed constraints)

error · 6 rules

colorChoice roles.colors.mark
allowed classic-blue, black, white
forbidden energy-blue, blue-700, blue-800, carbon-400, carbon-600

The 2020 wordmark fills with Intel Classic Blue (#0068B5) on light surfaces, or with monochrome black-on-light / white-on-dark when a one-color treatment is required. Energy Blue is the accent — used as a highlight color alongside the mark, never as the mark fill itself.

forbiddenTreatment logo
treatments stretched, rotated, recolored, drop-shadow, gradient-fill, on-busy-photo, outlined

The Intel mark is a fixed-proportion geometric wordmark. Recoloring (e.g., filling with Energy Blue or with a carbon grey), skewing, gradient-filling, drop-shadowing, or placing the mark on a busy photo conflicts with the restrained 2020 identity as it appears on intel.com.

contrastRatio text-primary
against background
minRatio 4.5
standard WCAG-AA

Carbon 800 (#262626) on white (#FFFFFF) measures ~14:1 — clears WCAG AA at the body-text floor of 4.5:1 with meaningful headroom. The enterprise reading posture on intel.com justifies the AA target as a hard floor.

contrastRatio roles.colors.primary
against background
minRatio 4.5
standard WCAG-AA

Classic Blue (#0068B5) on white measures ~5.6:1 — clears WCAG AA for body text, important because intel.com uses Classic Blue for inline links inside paragraph text where the 4.5:1 body-text floor (not the 3:1 large-text floor) applies.

colorChoice roles.colors.primary
allowed classic-blue, blue-700, energy-blue
forbidden blue-800, blue-900, carbon-800

The identity-primary role is filled by Classic Blue (default) or Energy Blue (on dark surfaces, where Classic Blue loses contrast). The deeper saturated blues (#0046C8, #000F28) are hero-canvas colors, not action colors — using them as the primary affordance breaks the established 2020 hierarchy.

accessibilityRequirement *
standard WCAG-AA
criterion 1.4.3

WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. The carbon-on-white text pairings and Classic Blue links all clear AA at the body-text floor. AA is the appropriate target for an enterprise marketing surface with mixed-density information.

warning · 1 rule

contextRestriction roles.colors.accent
forbiddenContexts body-text, long-form-reading
allowedContexts highlight, active-state, data-viz, hover-affordance

Energy Blue (#00C7FD) is the bright accent introduced in the 2020 refresh. It functions at highlight and active- state scales but falls below the AA body-text contrast floor on the white canvas (~2.1:1) and must not be used for running text.

recommendation · 1 rule

fontPairing typography.display
requires prose
minSizeRatio 1.3

Intel's marketing surfaces use Intel One Body Text (proprietary) for both display and body, distinguished by size and weight rather than two families. Maintain at least a 1.3× ratio between display and prose to preserve hierarchy when one family carries both roles.

Provenance

Source
https://www.intel.com/
License
Proprietary — All Rights Reserved
Attribution
Intel Corporation — identity values captured from the deployed stylesheet on intel.com (clientlib-base.min.css and intel-fonts.css under the --ighf-h-color-* / Intel One font- family declarations). Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Core, Intel Xeon, Intel Arc, Intel Foundry, Intel One, and Intel Clear are trademarks of Intel Corporation.
Imported
2026-05-18
Notes
Derived from live site CSS at https://www.intel.com/ on 2026-05-18; published brand guide at intel.com/content/www/us/en/company-overview/brand-guidelines.html is unavailable (returns 404 to non-browser clients). The proprietary brand typeface family (Intel One, Intel Clear) is declared on intel.com but not publicly distributed. This atom references Inter@1 as the open-source rendering substitute. Scope is the parent corporate identity only — Core, Xeon, Arc, and Foundry sub-brands are deferred. assets: [] per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy.