Alexandria, not Oxford.
The college’s own identity, applied to a website. Deep coastal petrol instead of navy, Roman inscriptional capitals instead of colonial script, one vermeil gold that appears in exactly one place per composition, and the Beacon A — the letter crowned by the Cross — as the mark.
Cinzel descends from letters cut into Roman columns, so every heading shares a literal ancestor with the mark. It is always caps and always tracked. EB Garamond carries the running text with humanist warmth; Inter serves anything a person operates.
Vermeil appears once per composition: the cross in the mark, a rule under a heading, or the motto in italic. It is never a field and never body text — it fails contrast at text sizes on every light ground. Where a second emphasis is needed, use scale or petrol.
Heroes, the footer and one institutional band are petrol. The page itself is parchment, not white; white is for cards and forms; limestone sets a section apart. Porphyry — the stone of emperors and patriarchs — appears at most once, for a moment of gravity.
The Roman inscriptional capital with a gold Latin cross rising through it from behind. The cross stands behind the letter and crowns it, the way the lantern crowns a lighthouse. Where the letter opens, the gold shows through.
A logo guide does not specify a website. The cool greys, the ramp below display, the button anatomy and the error colour Cinnabar are derived here and marked where they appear. One departure: the guide’s gold kickers fail its own contrast table at 13px, so kickers are petrol on light grounds and mist on petrol.