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  • 👋Welcome
  • GET INVOLVED
    • Why open source?
    • How to contribute code
    • How to file issues
      • Report a bug
      • Request a feature
      • Report a security vulnerability
    • Community guidelines
      • Code of Conduct
      • Reporting and removing content
      • Incident response protocol
    • Community events
      • Fall 2024 Coding Challenge
        • Event Submissions & Winners
      • Spring 2025 Collaborative Coding Challenge
        • Event Submissions & Winners
    • Communication channels
  • Product
    • Roadmap
    • Deliverables
      • 🏁Static site soft launch
      • 🏁Static site public launch
      • 🏁GET Opportunities
      • 🏁Open source onboarding
      • 🏁Co-Design Group planning
    • Decisions
      • ADR Template
      • ADRs
        • Dedicated Forum for Simpler.Grants.gov Community
        • Recording Architecture Decisions
        • Task Runner for the CI / CD Pipeline
        • API Language
        • Use Figma for design prototyping
        • ADR: Chat
        • DB Choices
        • API Framework and Libraries
        • Back-end Code Quality Tools
        • Front-end Language
        • Communications Tooling: Wiki Platform
        • Use Mural for design diagrams and whiteboarding
        • Ticket Tracking
        • Front-end Framework
        • Front-end Code Quality Tools
        • Front-end Testing & Coverage
        • Backend API Type
        • Front-end Testing & Coverage
        • Deployment Strategy
        • Use U.S. Web Design System for components and utility classes
        • FE server rendering
        • Use NPM over Yarn Architectural Decision Records
        • U.S. Web Design System in React
        • Communications Tooling: Video Conferencing
        • Back-end Production Server
        • Communications Tooling: Analytics Platform
        • Commit and Branch Conventions and Release Workflow
        • Cloud Platform to Host the Project
        • Infrastructure as Code Tool
        • Data Replication Strategy & Tool
        • HHS Communications Site
        • Communications Tooling: Email Marketing
        • Communications Tooling: Listserv
        • Use Ethnio for design research
        • Uptime Monitoring
        • Database Migrations
        • 30k ft deliverable reporting strategy
        • Public measurement dashboard architecture
        • Method and technology for "Contact Us" CTA
        • E2E / Integration Testing Framework
        • Logging and Monitoring Platform
        • Dashboard Data Storage
        • Dashboard Data Tool
        • Search Engine
        • Document Storage
        • Document Sharing
        • Internal Wiki ADR
        • Shared Team Calendar Platform
        • Cross-Program Team Health Survey Tool
        • Adding Slack Users to SimplerGrants Slack Workspace
        • Repo organization
        • Internal knowledge management
        • Migrate Existing API Consumers
      • Infra
        • Use markdown architectural decision records
        • CI/CD interface
        • Use custom implementation of GitHub OIDC
        • Manage ECR in prod account module
        • Separate terraform backend configs into separate config files
        • Database module design
        • Provision database users with serverless function
        • Database migration architecture
        • Consolidate infra config from tfvars files into config module
        • Environment use cases
        • Production networking long term state
    • Analytics
      • Open source community metrics
      • API metrics
  • DESIGN & RESEARCH
    • Brand guidelines
      • Logo
      • Colors
      • Grid and composition
      • Typography
      • Iconography
      • Photos and illustrations
    • Content guidelines
      • Voice and tone
    • User research
      • Grants.gov archetypes
  • REFERENCES
    • Glossary
  • How to edit the wiki
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  • Overview
  • Mission
  • Vision
  • Brand characters
  • Brand voice
  • Change Log

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  1. DESIGN & RESEARCH

Brand guidelines

Overview

The Grants.gov brand presents a unified and recognizable identity that influences how audiences understand and perceive Grants.gov.

Our brand guidelines are publicly available to help contributors maintain consistency across communication channels.

Mission

Grants.gov exists to increase access to grants and improve the grants experience for everyone.

Vision

Grants.gov is an extremely simple, accessible, and easy-to-use tool for posting, finding, sharing, and applying for federal financial assistance.

Brand characters

We are:

  • Approachable We are responsive, warm, and open with our users and ourselves.

  • Trustworthy We are an indispensable, credible source of knowledge, information, and expertise.

  • Accessible We put our users first, ensuring our services are accessible to people with different abilities, contexts, needs, and resources.

  • Straightforward We prioritize efficient, streamlined interactions.

  • Innovative We are data-driven and always open to new ideas and research.

  • Purposeful We constantly seek new opportunities to bring value to our users and those we serve.

Brand voice

  • We are responsive, warm, and open

  • We are transparent and audience-centered

  • We get straight to the point

  • We bring clarity to complex topics

Change Log

Major updates to the content of this page will be added here.

Date
Update
Notes

12/13/2024

Initial Content

Updated with Initial content

01/13/2025

Content updates

Logo, Grid & Comp, and Photos & Illustrations pages: Updated with new brand colors, larger images, and clearer written guidelines.

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