Brand · Version 5.3
The EU VAT Info brand
How EU VAT Info looks and speaks: the mark, the colours, the type and the voice. Use them when you write about, link to or build with EU VAT Info.
The mark
A white tile with a navy percent sign and a gold dot: a calculation, and the gold of the European flag. It always sits on its own white tile, so it reads on navy and on white alike.
Do
- Keep clear space of half the tile's width on every side.
- Use the SVG at any size from 16 px up.
- Set the wordmark in Inter Bold, next to the tile.
Don't
- Recolour, rotate, stretch or outline the mark.
- Move the gold dot or change it to another colour.
- Place it on photos or busy backgrounds without its tile.
Colour
EU navy frames every page, blue marks what you can act on and gold is a thin signature on navy. Values come straight from the Design Tokens; the dark value is what the site shows in dark mode.
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brand
#132B5A · dark #0E1D3A
EU navy: heroes, navy cards and panels
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brand-deep
#0B1E44 · dark #091429
Header, footer, text on white buttons
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gold
#FFCC00
EU gold signature, only on navy: active nav underline, kicker square, logo dot, accent icons, focus ring. Never on white, never for body text.
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action
#2159BF · dark #81B4F6
Links, selection, focus, data bars (never behind white text)
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button
#2159BF · dark #295EBD
Fills that carry white text (stays saturated in dark)
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ink
#0F1828 · dark #F1F4F8
Headings, values, primary text
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workspace
#F4F6F9 · dark #090D14
Page canvas behind cards
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surface
#FFFFFF · dark #11161F
Cards, fields, tables, menus
Gold only ever appears on navy, and white text only on the button blue, never on the lighter action blue.
Type
Inter Variable, with its optical sizes, for everything. Headings stay one colour, and every figure that can change or be compared is set in tabular numbers so columns line up.
Display · Bold
€1,487.50
Headline · Bold
Germany VAT calculator
Body · Regular
The standard VAT rate in Germany is 19%. Reduced rates of 7% apply to selected goods and services.
Kicker · Semibold
EU member
Voice
Plain, calm and exact, like a good reference book. In all 24 languages the copy says what is true, how current it is and where it comes from.
Say what is true and when
- Write
- Rates updated 11 Oct 2026, from the European Commission
- Not
- Always up to date
Lead with the answer
- Write
- Germany VAT is 19%. Reduced rates of 7% apply to selected goods.
- Not
- Welcome to the ultimate German VAT resource
Write in sentence case
- Write
- Validate a VAT number
- Not
- Validate A VAT Number
Give reference data, not advice
- Write
- VAT treatment depends on the goods and the customer.
- Not
- You must charge 19% on this sale.
Credit our data
The VAT rates and the dataset are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0. Name EU VAT Info and link to the page you used, and keep the update date when you show a rate.
VAT rates: EU VAT Info (vat.businesspress.io), from European Commission data, CC BY 4.0.