Ngā Momo Tuhinga

Typography

BEO Supreme, everywhere: one self-hosted face for display, body and figures. The standard New Zealand bin colours do the rest. There are no italics; emphasis comes from weight.

Scale

Eight steps

Type steps change only at breakpoints, never continuously with the viewport. Every step has a fixed weight and leading. Do not override.

Display

.text-display

size: 3.25rem / 4.5rem / 5.5rem
weight: 500 · Medium
leading: 0.98

Hero statements. One per page, at most.

706 kg per capita.

Heading 1

.text-heading-1

size: 2.6rem / 3.25rem / 3.75rem
weight: 500 · Medium
leading: 1.05

Page titles. Sets the top-level landmark.

One country. One system.

Heading 2

.text-heading-2

size: 1.55rem / 1.75rem
weight: 500 · Medium
leading: 1.15

Section headings inside a page.

Know before you throw.

Heading 3

.text-heading-3

size: 1.2rem
weight: 500 · Medium
leading: 1.22

Subsections and card titles.

What goes where in Aotearoa.

Body

.text-body

size: 1.125rem
weight: 400 · Regular
leading: 1.45

Primary reading text. Constrained to 66ch.

Aotearoa standardised what can be recycled. Every council still communicates it differently. Same materials, different signs.

Caption

.text-caption

size: 0.875rem
weight: 400 · Regular
leading: 1.5

Meta, labels, footnotes, supporting copy.

Open source. Free for council and public use.

Monospace

.text-mono

size: 0.875rem
weight: 400 · Regular
leading: 1.45

Material codes, tokens, tabular data.

PET #1 | HDPE #2 | PP #5 | AL | FE

Stat

.text-stat

size: 4rem / 5.5rem / 6.75rem
weight: 500 · Medium
leading: 0.95

Single-number callouts. Tabular figures only.

35%

BEO Supreme

The one face

Three weights. Light for restraint, Regular for reading, Medium for headings and emphasis. No italics. The brand never slants.

Light

font-weight: 300

Love You Bye

Regular

font-weight: 400

Love You Bye

Medium

font-weight: 500

Love You Bye

Numbers & codes

Tabular

Material codes, tokens and figures are set in BEO Supreme with tabular numerals, no separate mono face. Columns and currency line up by default.

PET #1 · HDPE #2 · PP #5 · AL · FE

Measure

66ch

Prose is capped at 66 characters per line. The paragraph below is set to the ideal measure. Anything wider strains the eye; anything narrower fragments the read.

New Zealanders send around 706 kilograms to landfill per person per year, and only about 38 % of household waste is recycled. The materials are standardised. The language is not. Love You Bye exists to close that gap with one warm, shared language any council, retailer, or manufacturer can adopt.

Body · 66ch measure · BEO Supreme 400