Xbox

Xbox is Microsoft's gaming brand cluster — covering the Xbox console family (original Xbox / 360 / One / Series S|X), Xbox Game Pass (the multi-tier subscription service), Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Studios first-party publishing (Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, 343 Industries, The Coalition, Mojang, Obsidian, inXile, Compulsion, Double Fine, Rare, Turn 10, Playground, World's Edge, undead Labs, and others), and the PC Game Pass / Xbox app on Windows. The brand voice is loud, inclusive, and player-first — "Power Your Dreams" and "When everyone plays, we all win" frame the marketing posture. Visually, Xbox is the most chromatically committed gaming identity: the entire brand reads on the single signature hue, "Xbox Green" (#107C10), with the achievement / Game Pass lime stripe (#9BF00B) as a secondary energy accent. Xbox is a sub-brand of Microsoft (parent: microsoft@1) but stands on its own atom because the green identity is functionally independent of the Microsoft corporate identity and Microsoft Gaming operates as a distinct visual brand cluster.

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Xbox

[email protected]

Xbox is Microsoft's gaming brand cluster — covering the Xbox console family (original Xbox / 360 / One / Series S|X), Xbox Game Pass (the multi-tier subscription service), Xbox Cloud Gaming, Xbox Game Studios first-party publishing (Bethesda, Activision Blizzard, 343 Industries, The Coalition, Mojang, Obsidian, inXile, Compulsion, Double Fine, Rare, Turn 10, Playground, World's Edge, undead Labs, and others), and the PC Game Pass / Xbox app on Windows. The brand voice is loud, inclusive, and player-first — "Power Your Dreams" and "When everyone plays, we all win" frame the marketing posture. Visually, Xbox is the most chromatically committed gaming identity: the entire brand reads on the single signature hue, "Xbox Green" (#107C10), with the achievement / Game Pass lime stripe (#9BF00B) as a secondary energy accent. Xbox is a sub-brand of Microsoft (parent: microsoft@1) but stands on its own atom because the green identity is functionally independent of the Microsoft corporate identity and Microsoft Gaming operates as a distinct visual brand cluster.

Tags: xbox, microsoft, gaming, console, green, sub-brand

Atoms

Palette

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

Xbox's brand palette as captured from the live xbox.com stylesheet. The brand is built around a single, instantly recognizable signature: "Xbox Green" — declared as --brandColorPrimary (#107C10) and --green (#107C10) on the live site, with a hover state of #007738 and an alt darker #044E2A. The brand canvas is dual-mode: a paper canvas for product detail pages and a deep ink (#171717 hero, #201F24 header) for the gaming-focused chrome. The "Xbox Progress" green ramp (#107C10 → #44B01C → #65C914) and the bright lime-stripe accent (#9BF00B) appear on subscription / achievement / Game Pass affordances. Typography is Microsoft's Segoe UI family (--font-family- sans-serif / --uhf-font-family) with SegoeProBlack reserved for hero display modules.

Fonts

Role Font License Classification
heading Segoe UI ([email protected]) Proprietary — Microsoft Corporation, distributed with Windows sans-serif
body Segoe UI ([email protected]) Proprietary — Microsoft Corporation, distributed with Windows sans-serif
mono JetBrainsMono Nerd Font ([email protected]) OFL-1.1 monospace

Swatches

ID Name Value
xbox-green Xbox Green #107C10
xbox-green-hover Xbox Green Hover #007738
xbox-green-alt Xbox Green Alt #044E2A
xbox-progress-b Xbox Progress B #65C914
xbox-progress-c Xbox Progress C #44B01C
gradient-start Gradient Start #0A4F0A
gradient-mid Gradient Mid #107C10
gradient-end Gradient End #054B16
lime-stripe Lime Stripe #9BF00B
ink-hero Ink Hero #171717
ink-header Ink Header #201F24
ink-card Ink Card #333333
graphite-text Graphite Text #242424
graphite-dark Graphite Dark #2F2F2F
graphite Graphite #505050
paper Paper #FFFFFF
paper-surface Paper Surface #F5F5F5
paper-divider Paper Divider #D2D2D2
status-warning Status Warning #FFB900
status-danger Status Danger #DC3545
status-info-blue Status Info Blue #0067B8
status-teal Status Teal #008575
gamepass-pink Game Pass Pink #FF0088
hero-alert Hero Alert #FFD800

Mode role mappings

Light mode

Role Swatch Hex
background paper #FFFFFF
surface paper-surface #F5F5F5
surface-elevated paper #FFFFFF
text-primary graphite-text #242424
text-secondary graphite-dark #2F2F2F
text-tertiary graphite #505050
primary xbox-green #107C10
primary-hover xbox-green-hover #007738
accent xbox-green #107C10
accent-hover xbox-green-hover #007738
warning status-warning #FFB900
warning-hover hero-alert #FFD800
error status-danger #DC3545
success xbox-green #107C10
border paper-divider #D2D2D2

Dark mode

Role Swatch Hex
background ink-hero #171717
surface ink-header #201F24
surface-elevated ink-card #333333
text-primary paper #FFFFFF
text-secondary paper-divider #D2D2D2
text-tertiary graphite #505050
primary xbox-green #107C10
primary-hover lime-stripe #9BF00B
accent lime-stripe #9BF00B
accent-hover xbox-progress-b #65C914
warning status-warning #FFB900
warning-hover hero-alert #FFD800
error status-danger #DC3545
success xbox-progress-b #65C914
border graphite-dark #2F2F2F

Brand semantic roles

Colors

Role Swatch Hex
identity ink-hero #171717
on-identity xbox-green #107C10
primary xbox-green #107C10
primary-hover xbox-green-hover #007738
accent lime-stripe #9BF00B
accent-hover xbox-progress-b #65C914
mark xbox-green #107C10
success xbox-green #107C10
warning status-warning #FFB900
error status-danger #DC3545
text-primary-light graphite-text #242424
text-primary-dark paper #FFFFFF
background-light paper #FFFFFF
background-dark ink-hero #171717
surface-light paper-surface #F5F5F5
surface-dark ink-header #201F24
text-secondary-light graphite-dark #2F2F2F
text-tertiary-light graphite #505050
border-light paper-divider #D2D2D2

Typography

Role Font role key
display heading
prose body
code mono

Rules

🛑 error (6)

colorChoiceroles.colors.primary

  • allowed: xbox-green, xbox-green-hover, xbox-green-alt
  • forbidden: lime-stripe, status-info-blue, status-danger, status-warning, gamepass-pink

The Xbox brand is the single committed Xbox Green (#107C10) — declared on the live site as --brandColorPrimary, --green, --success, and --primary simultaneously. The lime stripe (#9BF00B) is the achievement / Game Pass accent, the blue is Microsoft's inherited UHF link affordance, and the pink is a promotional subscription-CTA. Substituting any of them for the brand primary breaks the most identifiable element of the Xbox identity.

colorChoiceroles.colors.mark

  • allowed: xbox-green, paper, graphite-text
  • forbidden: lime-stripe, status-info-blue, status-danger, gamepass-pink, status-warning

The Xbox sphere logo renders in Xbox Green on light backgrounds, in white on dark backgrounds, and in monochrome graphite for ink-on-paper contexts. The lime stripe, Microsoft blue, pink, and warning yellow are not mark fills — they are content affordances or Microsoft-corporate inheritances. Substituting any of them as the Xbox mark fill misrepresents the brand.

forbiddenTreatmentlogo

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

The Xbox sphere is a fixed-proportion identity. Microsoft Gaming's published partner-portal guidelines require the sphere to render only in approved color and on plain or approved-photo backgrounds with documented clearspace. Skewing, rotating, drop-shadowing, or placing the sphere on a busy photo violates the partner-portal requirements.

contrastRatiotext-primary

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

Paper (#FFFFFF) on Ink Hero (#171717) measures ~18:1 and Graphite Text (#242424) on Paper (#FFFFFF) measures ~15:1 — both clear WCAG AA decisively. Xbox's product- detail pages carry dense system-requirements tables, multi-tier Game Pass pricing comparisons, and achievement lists; AA is the body-text floor across both modes.

contextRestrictionroles.colors.accent

  • forbiddenContexts: logo, hero-headline, error-state, destructive-action
  • allowedContexts: achievement, game-pass, active-state, focus-ring, subscription-cta

The Lime Stripe (#9BF00B) is a Game Pass / achievement / active-state accent on the live Xbox surfaces — observed with a #054B16 (gradient-end) text fill on its stripe treatment. It must not appear as the Xbox logo fill or as a hero headline color (those roles belong to the Xbox-green family), and it must not appear in error or destructive contexts (those use --danger / --red).

accessibilityRequirement*

  • standard: WCAG-AA
  • criterion: 1.4.3

WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. Xbox's surfaces carry dense product information (game titles, ratings, system requirements, multi-tier Game Pass pricing) across both light and dark modes; AA is the floor. The mark-on-canvas pairings (Xbox Green on Paper, white-on-Ink-Hero) clear AA comfortably.

⚠️ warning (1)

enumMembershiptypography.heading.fontWeight

  • allowed: 400, 600, 700

Xbox uses Segoe UI at Regular (400), SemiBold (600), and Bold (700) for the marketing chrome — observed on the live Universal Header Footer (UHF) and Xbox-specific navigation. The SegoeProBlack cut (font-weight: 900) is reserved for hero display modules ("JOIN GAME PASS" and similar promo CTAs) and lives under typography.display, not typography.heading.

💡 recommendation (2)

compositionConstraintroles.colors.primary

  • pairsWith: ink-hero, ink-header, paper, paper-surface
  • doesNotPairWith: gamepass-pink, status-warning, hero-alert

Xbox Green reads cleanest against the deep ink hero canvas or the paper canvas. Placing it directly adjacent to the Game Pass promotional pink, the warning amber, or the hero-alert yellow produces chromatic conflict — the live site separates these accent surfaces with neutral chrome.

fontPairingtypography.display

  • requires: prose
  • minSizeRatio: 1.5

Xbox hero modules pair SegoeProBlack (display) with Segoe UI Regular (prose). Maintain at least a 1.5× display-to- prose size ratio to preserve hierarchy between the heavy display cut and the body text — the live "JOIN GAME PASS" hero / supporting-text combinations sit comfortably above this floor.

Provenance

  • Source: https://www.xbox.com/
  • License: Proprietary — All Rights Reserved
  • Attribution: Microsoft Corporation / Microsoft Gaming — visual identity captured from the deployed stylesheet on xbox.com (--brandColorPrimary, --xboxProgressA/B/C, --entryGradient*, --pd-hero-* CSS custom-property families plus the Microsoft UHF / Bootstrap status tokens). Xbox, the Xbox sphere logo, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and associated marks are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
  • Imported: 2026-05-19
  • Notes: Derived from live site CSS at https://www.xbox.com/en-us/ on 2026-05-19; Microsoft's public Xbox brand-guidelines documents (Xbox Partner Marketing Hub) are partner-portal- only and not publicly accessible. The primary typeface is Segoe UI (--font-family-sans-serif), supplemented by SegoeProBlack for hero display modules (observed on the live "JOIN GAME PASS" promo CTA). Segoe UI is available in this catalog as segoe-ui@1. The Xbox sphere logo is a central identity element but is not enumerated as a separate asset variant per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy. assets: [] applies.

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

Components — same template, themed by Xbox

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.

Xbox

A clear hierarchy in Xbox'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 → lime-stripe #9BF00B
accent-hover → xbox-progress-b #65C914
background-dark → ink-hero #171717
background-light → paper #FFFFFF
border-light → paper-divider #D2D2D2
error → status-danger #DC3545
identity → ink-hero #171717
mark → xbox-green #107C10
on-identity → xbox-green #107C10
primary → xbox-green #107C10
primary-hover → xbox-green-hover #007738
success → xbox-green #107C10
surface-dark → ink-header #201F24
surface-light → paper-surface #F5F5F5
text-primary-dark → paper #FFFFFF
text-primary-light → graphite-text #242424
text-secondary-light → graphite-dark #2F2F2F
text-tertiary-light → graphite #505050
warning → status-warning #FFB900

Typography

code → mono JetBrainsMono Nerd Font
display → heading Segoe UI
prose → body Segoe UI

Palette mode mappings (from xbox)

Light mode (15 roles)

accent → xbox-green
accent-hover → xbox-green-hover
background → paper
border → paper-divider
error → status-danger
primary → xbox-green
primary-hover → xbox-green-hover
success → xbox-green
surface → paper-surface
surface-elevated → paper
text-primary → graphite-text
text-secondary → graphite-dark
text-tertiary → graphite
warning → status-warning
warning-hover → hero-alert

Dark mode (15 roles)

accent → lime-stripe
accent-hover → xbox-progress-b
background → ink-hero
border → graphite-dark
error → status-danger
primary → xbox-green
primary-hover → lime-stripe
success → xbox-progress-b
surface → ink-header
surface-elevated → ink-card
text-primary → paper
text-secondary → paper-divider
text-tertiary → graphite
warning → status-warning
warning-hover → hero-alert

Rules (9 typed constraints)

error · 6 rules

colorChoice roles.colors.primary
allowed xbox-green, xbox-green-hover, xbox-green-alt
forbidden lime-stripe, status-info-blue, status-danger, status-warning, gamepass-pink

The Xbox brand is the single committed Xbox Green (#107C10) — declared on the live site as --brandColorPrimary, --green, --success, and --primary simultaneously. The lime stripe (#9BF00B) is the achievement / Game Pass *accent*, the blue is Microsoft's inherited UHF link affordance, and the pink is a promotional subscription-CTA. Substituting any of them for the brand primary breaks the most identifiable element of the Xbox identity.

colorChoice roles.colors.mark
allowed xbox-green, paper, graphite-text
forbidden lime-stripe, status-info-blue, status-danger, gamepass-pink, status-warning

The Xbox sphere logo renders in Xbox Green on light backgrounds, in white on dark backgrounds, and in monochrome graphite for ink-on-paper contexts. The lime stripe, Microsoft blue, pink, and warning yellow are *not* mark fills — they are content affordances or Microsoft-corporate inheritances. Substituting any of them as the Xbox mark fill misrepresents the brand.

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

The Xbox sphere is a fixed-proportion identity. Microsoft Gaming's published partner-portal guidelines require the sphere to render only in approved color and on plain or approved-photo backgrounds with documented clearspace. Skewing, rotating, drop-shadowing, or placing the sphere on a busy photo violates the partner-portal requirements.

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

Paper (#FFFFFF) on Ink Hero (#171717) measures ~18:1 and Graphite Text (#242424) on Paper (#FFFFFF) measures ~15:1 — both clear WCAG AA decisively. Xbox's product- detail pages carry dense system-requirements tables, multi-tier Game Pass pricing comparisons, and achievement lists; AA is the body-text floor across both modes.

contextRestriction roles.colors.accent
forbiddenContexts logo, hero-headline, error-state, destructive-action
allowedContexts achievement, game-pass, active-state, focus-ring, subscription-cta

The Lime Stripe (#9BF00B) is a Game Pass / achievement / active-state accent on the live Xbox surfaces — observed with a #054B16 (gradient-end) text fill on its stripe treatment. It must not appear as the Xbox logo fill or as a hero headline color (those roles belong to the Xbox-green family), and it must not appear in error or destructive contexts (those use --danger / --red).

accessibilityRequirement *
standard WCAG-AA
criterion 1.4.3

WCAG 2.1 Success Criterion 1.4.3 (Contrast Minimum) — Level AA. Xbox's surfaces carry dense product information (game titles, ratings, system requirements, multi-tier Game Pass pricing) across both light and dark modes; AA is the floor. The mark-on-canvas pairings (Xbox Green on Paper, white-on-Ink-Hero) clear AA comfortably.

warning · 1 rule

enumMembership typography.heading.fontWeight
allowed 400, 600, 700

Xbox uses Segoe UI at Regular (400), SemiBold (600), and Bold (700) for the marketing chrome — observed on the live Universal Header Footer (UHF) and Xbox-specific navigation. The SegoeProBlack cut (font-weight: 900) is reserved for hero display modules ("JOIN GAME PASS" and similar promo CTAs) and lives under typography.display, not typography.heading.

recommendation · 2 rules

compositionConstraint roles.colors.primary
pairsWith ink-hero, ink-header, paper, paper-surface
doesNotPairWith gamepass-pink, status-warning, hero-alert

Xbox Green reads cleanest against the deep ink hero canvas or the paper canvas. Placing it directly adjacent to the Game Pass promotional pink, the warning amber, or the hero-alert yellow produces chromatic conflict — the live site separates these accent surfaces with neutral chrome.

fontPairing typography.display
requires prose
minSizeRatio 1.5

Xbox hero modules pair SegoeProBlack (display) with Segoe UI Regular (prose). Maintain at least a 1.5× display-to- prose size ratio to preserve hierarchy between the heavy display cut and the body text — the live "JOIN GAME PASS" hero / supporting-text combinations sit comfortably above this floor.

Provenance

Source
https://www.xbox.com/
License
Proprietary — All Rights Reserved
Attribution
Microsoft Corporation / Microsoft Gaming — visual identity captured from the deployed stylesheet on xbox.com (--brandColorPrimary, --xboxProgressA/B/C, --entryGradient*, --pd-hero-* CSS custom-property families plus the Microsoft UHF / Bootstrap status tokens). Xbox, the Xbox sphere logo, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox Game Pass, Xbox Live, Xbox Cloud Gaming, and associated marks are trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.
Imported
2026-05-19
Notes
Derived from live site CSS at https://www.xbox.com/en-us/ on 2026-05-19; Microsoft's public Xbox brand-guidelines documents (Xbox Partner Marketing Hub) are partner-portal- only and not publicly accessible. The primary typeface is Segoe UI (--font-family-sans-serif), supplemented by SegoeProBlack for hero display modules (observed on the live "JOIN GAME PASS" promo CTA). Segoe UI is available in this catalog as segoe-ui@1. The Xbox sphere logo is a central identity element but is not enumerated as a separate asset variant per the encyclopedia's trademark-redistribution policy. assets: [] applies.