Great Lakes Commission logos, color, and font standards
Use, reproduction, copying, or redistribution of Great Lakes Commission logos is strictly prohibited without written or oral permission from the Great Lakes Commission. If you wish to use a logo as a link from your website to the Great Lakes Commission, we have made this very easy for you. Please use the .GIF versions of our logos below on this page.

If you wish to use a logo for any other purpose, and your organization has a preexisting agreement with the Great Lakes Commission, that agreement will specify your rights and obligations regarding use of our logos.

If you do not have an existing agreement with the Great Lakes Commission, you may request permission for logo use. Send your request for permission to use a Great Lakes Commission logo to Elizabeth Schmidt at eschmidt@glc.org and type "Great Lakes Commission Logo Request" in the subject line.

1. Hover your mouse pointer over the file type of your choice (such as "TIF" below) -- Note: on a Macintosh, first hit the "CTRL" key on the keyboard and then click the mouse button
2. Click the right mouse button (also known as a "right-click")
3. Select "Save Target As..." from the pop-up menu
4. Browse for a download location in the "Save As" window
5. Click the "Save" button

GLC logo: boxed black

GLC logo: boxed blue
Download this graphic as:
EPS (AI 10)  |  TIF (600dpi)  |  GIF

GLC logo: open black

GLC logo: open blue
Download this graphic as:
EPS (AI 10)  |  TIF (600dpi)  |  GIF

Great Lakes: solid black

Great Lakes: solid blue

Great Lakes: solid white

About the Commission's "blue" color...
The "Commission Blue" color is Pantone 288 (PMS 288). You can reproduce this color in the imaging software of your choice (Photoshop, Illustrator, Freehand, etc.) with the following values for Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK): C=100%, M=65%, Y=0%, K=30%

This is a very popular color choice for logos. Perhaps because the Pantone 288 color mix displays the freedom and purity of blue mixed with the royalty and elegance of purple as well as the stimulation and excitement of red. It's a color loaded with emotional contrasts.

The PMS 288 shade of blue is also used by St. Luke's Regional Medical Center, Confederation College, Pellissippi State Technical Community College, Allegiance Systems, Ltd., Roadway Express, California State University, Fresno, University of California, Irvine, Utah State University, University of New Hampshire, Cedarville University, WEL Energy Trust, Xavier University, University of North Florida, Kentucky Community and Technical College System, State of Idaho Department of Commerce, and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade just to name a few of the many proponents of Pantone 288.

About the Commission's fonts
The text "Great Lakes Commission des Grands Lacs" appears in our logo using the font Zapf Humanist 601 (see character map). This font was created in 1958 by Herman Zapf, a German-born type designer, and later digitized by the Bitstream font house.

The Zaph Humanist family as a whole is quite similar to the Optima type family, also designed by Zapf. Zaph Humanist is the perfect example of a humanistic typeface: a sans serif letterset designed with the classic proportions of older fonts, yet more complex and refined than most sans serif designs such as Helvetica. It has the thick/thin variations lacking from most sans serif typefaces, which give it an oldstyle appeal with a contemporary twist.

You can buy this font and other fonts in its family online in Mac / PC / TrueType / PostScript formats from Bitstream, Inc. This font is also installed automatically upon installation of various Corel Corporation software packages, such as Corel WordPerfect 8 and CorelDRAW 4.

The Commission's preferred online font is Verdana (body text) and Verdana Bold (heads, leads). This typeface was developed by Microsoft Corp. specifically for use as a screen font that remains legible when rendered at small sizes.

For more information about how the Commission uses fonts on its web site, please see the Commission's stylesheet (CSS).