Fonts
The Cary Academy font set has been created to complement the school’s brand and communicate a consistent message. The brand fonts pair modern typography with the classical Greek temple to reflect Cary Academy’s position as an innovative leader in education.
Minion font
Minion is a classic, old-style typeface designed for Adobe in 1990 by Robert Slimbach. Its slightly condensed design excels as a text font, allowing more characters per line than most old-style fonts. Minion is one of the most robust families, with a huge library of weights, alternate characters, and ornaments that allow for a great range of expression in a typeface whose core character was designed to be essentially neutral.
Uses
Headlines
Subheads
Longer text
Avenir Next font
One of Cary Academy’s primary typefaces is Avenir. Avenir is a geometric sans-serif originally designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988 for Linotype corporation, drawing on past geometric sans families of Futura and Erbar. In 2004, Frutiger collaborated with Akira Kobayashi, Type Director at Linotype, to update this popular font. The result was Avenir Next.
Uses
Headlines
Subheads and short text
Large text overlays and masks
Alternate fonts
The alternate fonts Times and Arial are for internal use only. All marketing communications directed to off-campus audiences must use the approved fonts shown above. This is vital to maintaining a unified and professional brand. That said, more informal communications such as interpersonal emails do not require our brand fonts. In these cases, please use the fonts on this page. Questions? Ask the communications team.
Example Uses
Emails
Letters
Dos & dont’s
Do make sure the type is scaled proportionally to eliminate any distortions when sizing up and down.
Don’t stretch or squeeze the type unproportionally.
Fonts licensing
A limited number of licenses for Avenir and Minion are available for professional communicators across campus who agree to use them within brand parameters. If you’re interested in receiving the fonts, contact the communications team.
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Communications Department
We create content, words, and visuals that highlight Cary Academy's excellence. We are laser-focused on spreading the word about Cary Academy—its strengths and accomplishments—in compelling ways that represent the diversity of experiences within our community.