The Vatican's Official website, which offers access to official documents of the magisterium of the Pope and the Holy See, has a new look. The designer says: “It is the Church's embrace of the digital world.”
Vatican News released that the Vatican website had not been updated since 1995.
Now it displays a sky blue background with Pope Leo XIV greeting the faithful with a smile. The new homepage of the institutional website of the Holy See vatican.va has a more modern design guiding visitors to the consultation of the magisterium of the Pope and his predecessors, as well as containing a rich series of information on the Vatican world. The new graphic design for a site that has been online since December 1995, therefore for almost 30 years. The Holy See on the web, is designed with the aim of offering a clearer and more accessible browsing experience to visitors, who will be able to navigate more easily in search of the documentation of the Magisterium, both that of Pope Leo XIV and that of his predecessors.
The homepage update is part of a long editorial and development effort, structured in different phases with the aim of transferring the immense historical heritage of the site to a renewed portal. In order for these pages to be usable, teams have worked and continue to work together: the Editorial Team takes care of the institutional documentation and guarantees the accessibility of all content, and the Technical Team of the Dicastery for Communication that developed the structure, giving life to the project of the Peruvian graphic designer Juan Carlos Yto (TMB_Lab), a former student of the first group of the Faith Communication in the Digital World program.
“It must represent the embrace of the Church in the digital world”: this is what inspired Juan Carlos in the design of the new graphic design. “It was the first thing that came to mind when I learned of the intention to renew the official website of the Holy See,” explains the Peruvian graphic designer, “Following the spirit and elliptical shape of Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s St. Peter’s Square: a Church with open arms, universally accessible and updated to modern times.” A clearer, more accessible and contemporary Church, adds Juan Carlos. Who motivates his graphic choices as follows: “The colors are inspired by the blue of the Roman sky, which contrasts magnificently with the warm tones of travertine. Sky and earth. Stone and depth. Golden accents of divinity, light grays and whites to illuminate. Larger and more prominent photographs on the homepage, to show a living Church in continuous movement."
Source Vatican News
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