Everything you need to make something on-brand, grouped by which section of the handbook the resource belongs to. A resource can appear in more than one section. To add or update a resource, see the README.
Brand
| Resource | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ELIXIR (Hub) | external-link | The parent ELIXIR organisation – European life-science data infrastructure. |
| ELIXIR (parent) Brand Guidelines | external-link | Parent ELIXIR brand book – palette, logo, type. ELIXIR-UK inherits from this. |
| ELIXIR (parent) Style Guide | external-link | Hub-level style guide (Sept 2025, Deborah van Wyk). Capitalisation, dates, ELIXIR-specific terms, spelling. ELIXIR-UK follows it with named exceptions (the ELIXIR-UK hyphen, double quotation marks). |
| ELIXIR Europe Flickr | external-link | European-level event photography. Open access; check each image’s licence on Flickr before reuse. |
| ELIXIR-UK isometric illustration set | image-asset | Licensed isometric illustrations used as hero imagery across reports, the website, newsletters, posters, slides and the Zoom waiting room. ELIXIR-UK use only – behind login. Email contact@elixiruknode.org for access. |
| ELIXIR-UK logo bundle | logo | All four ELIXIR-UK lockups (logotype, logomark, expanded, sponsored) with their light- and dark-background variants in SVG and PNG. See Logo variations for previews and individual downloads. |
| ELIXIR-UK photo archive | image-asset | ELIXIR-UK’s own record of event photography. Behind login – email contact@elixiruknode.org for access. |
| ELIXIR-UK website | external-link | The public-facing ELIXIR-UK website. |
| Event announcement template | template | Event poster + social graphic template. To be added. |
| Lato | font | Primary typeface. Used everywhere by default – body, UI, headings, footers, social, slides. |
| Letter of support template | template | Pre-populated letter of support, with the standard text and framing for that use case. Built on the letterhead. Requires sign-in to access. |
| Letterhead template | template | Blank ELIXIR-UK letterhead for formal correspondence. Requires sign-in to access. For letters of support specifically, use the dedicated template below. |
| Merriweather | font | Serif used only for titles on editorial prints – annual reports, posters, formal documents, event programmes. Never for body, web pages or non-print headings. |
| News banner template | template | Template image for webstory banners and the LinkedIn post that accompanies them. Link placeholder – to be confirmed. |
| Open Sans | font | Fallback for Lato. Used only when Lato isn’t available (older Word installs, certain email clients, some presentation templates). |
| RDMkit | external-link | ELIXIR’s researcher-facing Research Data Management resource. Built on the same toolkit theme. |
| Slide-deck template | template | Default 16:9 slide deck. To be added – Google Slides and PowerPoint. |
| Social media banner template | template | Template for social media banners with the brand overlay and helix motif baked in. Link to be added. |
| Social post templates | template | LinkedIn / Bluesky / Mastodon post graphics. To be added – Figma + Canva. |
| Webstory hero image template | template | Hero-image template for ELIXIR-UK webstories. To be added – Figma. |
| WorkflowHub | external-link | Registry of computational workflows. Built on the toolkit theme. |
Style guide
| Resource | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Data Stewardship Handbook | external-link | ELIXIR community handbook for data stewards. Reference for related-pages and tool-registry patterns. |
| ELIXIR (parent) Style Guide | external-link | Hub-level style guide (Sept 2025, Deborah van Wyk). Capitalisation, dates, ELIXIR-specific terms, spelling. ELIXIR-UK follows it with named exceptions (the ELIXIR-UK hyphen, double quotation marks). |
| News banner template | template | Template image for webstory banners and the LinkedIn post that accompanies them. Link placeholder – to be confirmed. |
| RDMkit | external-link | ELIXIR’s researcher-facing Research Data Management resource. Built on the same toolkit theme. |
| Webstory hero image template | template | Hero-image template for ELIXIR-UK webstories. To be added – Figma. |
Communications strategy
| Resource | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ELIXIR (Europe) Zenodo community | external-link | Europe-level Zenodo community for ELIXIR outputs. Use for DOIs on anything that isn’t a peer-reviewed article. Entries can be associated with more than one community. |
| ELIXIR (Hub) | external-link | The parent ELIXIR organisation – European life-science data infrastructure. |
| ELIXIR (parent) Communications Strategy v2.1 | external-link | Hub-level comms strategy (Jan 2026, Elaine Harrison). Five objectives, four stakeholder groups, Hub channels, crisis plan. ELIXIR-UK localises against this. |
| ELIXIR Code of Conduct | external-link | Hub-published Code of Conduct. Applies only to events organised by the Hub – not a Node-wide policy. |
| ELIXIR Europe Flickr | external-link | European-level event photography. Open access; check each image’s licence on Flickr before reuse. |
| ELIXIR Gateway on F1000Research | external-link | Open-access publishing venue for ELIXIR-funded research. APCs are covered by ELIXIR for accepted articles. |
| ELIXIR Hub vacancies page | external-link | Hub-hosted job board. UK members post UK vacancies here; an RSS feed pulls them into the ELIXIR-UK newsletter, which Zapier then posts to Slack and LinkedIn. |
| ELIXIR Node Communications Strategy Toolkit | external-link | ELIXIR-STEERS M5.3 (Nov 2025) – canonical template for Node communications strategies. |
| ELIXIR-UK photo archive | image-asset | ELIXIR-UK’s own record of event photography. Behind login – email contact@elixiruknode.org for access. |
| ELIXIR-UK website | external-link | The public-facing ELIXIR-UK website. |
| ELIXIR-UK Zenodo community | external-link | UK Zenodo community for ELIXIR-UK outputs. Use for DOIs on anything that isn’t a peer-reviewed article. Entries can be associated with more than one community (e.g. both the UK and Europe communities). |
| Event announcement template | template | Event poster + social graphic template. To be added. |
| Social media banner template | template | Template for social media banners with the brand overlay and helix motif baked in. Link to be added. |
| Social post templates | template | LinkedIn / Bluesky / Mastodon post graphics. To be added – Figma + Canva. |
| TeSS | external-link | ELIXIR training portal. UK events are added here and an RSS feed pulls the latest into the ELIXIR-UK newsletter. Full automation pending. |