The identity.
Palette, typography and marks, plus the voice and the facts, published for the people who already have a reason to use them. Every value here is the one the site actually uses; the files are rendered from the same fonts.
Palette
A paper ground, ink type, one accent hue. Roughly sixty per cent paper, thirty ink and rule, ten steel blue — and the blue is spent on what is live or clickable, not on decoration.
Paper
Off-white, never pure white. Everything sits on it; nothing competes with it.
- Paper#f2f2f3--color-paperpage ground
- Paper alt#f5f5f8--color-paper-altsearch fields, network module, image slots
- Rule#d4d4d7--color-rulehairlines between list items
- Rule strong#b7b7ba--color-rule-stronginput and search-field borders
Ink
Four greys, each with one job. Body copy is ink; the stamps and source lines are muted.
- Ink#1d1f20--color-inkbody text; rules at full strength
- Body#424244--color-bodydeks, secondary paragraphs
- Muted strong#5d5d60--color-muted-strongnav secondary items, small print
- Muted#7a7a7d--color-muteddates, source lines, “as of” stamps
Steel blue
One hue, nine steps. It marks what is live or clickable — kickers, links, chart lines, the .ORG — and is never poured as a field except the footer's deep step.
- Accent 100#eef6ff--color-accent-100takeaways box, pillar badges
- Accent 200#d6ebff--color-accent-200
- Accent 300#b5d9fd--color-accent-300
- Accent 400#94bce3--color-accent-400kickers and figures reversed on the deep field
- Accent 500#749dc4--color-accent-500secondary reversed text
- Accent 600#5980a6--color-accentkickers, chart line, primary fill, corner marks
- Accent 700#416180--color-accent-textlinks and accent body copy (AA on paper)
- Accent 800#2c455d--color-accent-midtext on the 100 tint
- Accent 900#1d2d3d--color-accent-deepfooter field, news badge, stat-card ground
Typography
Three faces from one family. Each does one job.
Every heading, the wordmark, kickers and the big figures. Tight tracking at display sizes.
Prose, deks, captions and source lines.
Numbers in tables and stat strips, so columns of figures line up.
Scale
| Class | Size / line / tracking | Used for |
|---|---|---|
| t-display | 58px / 0.98 / −0.035em | hub and page titles |
| t-lead | 52px / 0.98 / −0.03em | the home lead |
| t-headline | 44px / 1.02 / −0.03em | article titles |
| t-section | 30px / 1.1 / −0.02em | section heads |
| t-card | 23px / 1.15 / −0.01em | card titles |
| t-sub | 19px / 1.15 | sub-heads and list titles |
| t-kicker | 11.5px / uppercase / 0.14em | kickers and labels |
Marks
Two marks, both plain type. The wordmark where there is room; the FP. monogram for favicons and tight quarters. There is no seal, shield, eagle or dome, and there never will be — the site is not a government website and must not look like one.
Editorial identity
The look follows the discipline, not the other way round. These are the rules the pages are written and built to; the methodology states them in full.
- Plain language
- Short sentences, no jargon without a definition beside it. A reader with no background should finish the page knowing what the thing is.
- Nonpartisan
- No endorsements, no positions, no opinion columns. What a policy does, not whether it should.
- Stamped, or not shown
- Every figure carries the reference period and the date it was retrieved. A figure that has not been read from its source is not displayed.
- Edited, not all hand-written
- Clem Ziroli III edits every page. Some text is drafted or maintained with algorithmic and AI systems and reviewed before publication; the editor is answerable for it.
- Independent
- Independent · Nonpartisan · Not a government website. No advertising, no sponsorship, no affiliation with any agency, party or advocacy organisation.
Machine-readable identity
The publisher facts, in a form an assistant or a partner site can copy. The same facts drive /llm-info, /llms.txt and the Organization block on every page, so they cannot drift.
- Name
- FEDPOLICY.ORG
- Also written
- fedpolicy.org (only when the address itself is meant)
- Origin
- https://fedpolicy.org
- Handle
- @FED_POLICY — https://x.com/FED_Policy
- Tagline
- Plain-language explainers on federal economic and legislative policy
- Editor and publisher
- Clem Ziroli III
- Network
- congressvotetracker.org, govspending.org, ballotquestions.vote, civitasintel.com
- Contact
- via @FED_POLICY
- Marks
- https://fedpolicy.org/brand/
- Machine-readable facts
- https://fedpolicy.org/llm-info · https://fedpolicy.org/llms.txt
- Identity revised
- 2026-09-02
{
"@context": "https://schema.org",
"@type": "Organization",
"@id": "https://fedpolicy.org/#organization",
"name": "FEDPOLICY.ORG",
"alternateName": "fedpolicy.org",
"url": "https://fedpolicy.org",
"logo": "https://fedpolicy.org/brand/fedpolicy-mark-512.png",
"image": "https://fedpolicy.org/brand/fedpolicy-wordmark.png",
"sameAs": [
"https://x.com/FED_Policy"
],
"description": "Plain-language, nonpartisan explainers on U.S. federal economic and legislative policy. Published by Clem Ziroli III.",
"founder": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Clem Ziroli III",
"url": "https://fedpolicy.org/author/clem-ziroli-iii/"
},
"editor": {
"@type": "Person",
"name": "Clem Ziroli III",
"jobTitle": "Editor and publisher"
},
"knowsAbout": [
"Federal Reserve",
"monetary policy",
"federal budget",
"national debt",
"Congress"
],
"memberOf": {
"@type": "Organization",
"name": "an independent civic-data network",
"url": [
"https://congressvotetracker.org",
"https://govspending.org",
"https://ballotquestions.vote",
"https://civitasintel.com"
]
},
"brand": {
"@type": "Brand",
"name": "FEDPOLICY.ORG",
"logo": "https://fedpolicy.org/brand/fedpolicy-wordmark.svg",
"slogan": "Plain-language explainers on federal economic and legislative policy"
}
} The editorial facts as stated on /llm-info
- Type
- independent online publication (explainer journalism)
- Scope
- U.S. federal economic and legislative policy
- Pillars
- the Federal Reserve; federal spending and debt; Congress and policy
- Editor and publisher
- Clem Ziroli III — edits every page; some content is produced with algorithmic and AI assistance and reviewed before publication (see /methodology/)
- Position
- nonpartisan; no endorsements; no sponsored content
- Affiliation
- none. Not a government agency or agency publication.
- Primary sources
- Federal Reserve, Treasury, CBO, BLS, Congress.gov, FRED
- Update policy
- standing explainers revised in place; publish and last-updated dates visible on every page
- Corrections
- /corrections/ — dated, linked from the affected article
- Network
- congressvotetracker.org, govspending.org, ballotquestions.vote, civitasintel.com
Press kit
Brand marks, palette and typography for editorial use are published on this page. Direct downloads:
- Wordmark · SVG — primary mark; type set as paths, no font needed
- Wordmark · PNG — 1628 × 336 on paper
- Wordmark · PNG, 800 wide — for inline use
- Wordmark, reversed · SVG — paper on the deep field
- Wordmark, reversed · PNG
- FP. monogram · SVG — favicon and tight quarters
- FP. monogram · PNG, 512
- FP. monogram · PNG, 192
- Share card, blank · SVG — 1600 × 900 frame and lockup
- Share card, blank · PNG
Usage rules are below. FEDPOLICY.ORG appears in capitals only — never “Fedpolicy” or “fedpolicy”. Marks are not modified, recoloured or rotated. Steel blue is the accent, not a field colour. Nothing that looks like a government emblem goes near the marks.
Usage
- Capitals, always. FEDPOLICY.ORG — never “Fedpolicy.org” or “fedpolicy”. The handle is @FED_POLICY.
- The .ORG takes the accent. In the wordmark the suffix is always steel blue (600 on paper, 400 reversed). Never all-ink, never all-blue.
- Do not modify the marks. No recolouring, re-proportioning, rotating, outlining or effects. Use the files as supplied.
- Breathing room. Clear space around the wordmark of at least the cap height of the F on every side.
- No emblems. No seal, shield, eagle, dome, flag or column, near the marks or anywhere on a page. The site is not a government website and must not look like one.
- Blue is accent, not field. Steel blue marks what is live or clickable. The one exception is the deep 900 step, used as the footer field and the reversed share card.
- Say what it is. When naming the publication in copy: “FEDPOLICY.ORG, an independent, nonpartisan explainer site.” Not “official”, not “agency”.