About
This page describes the authoring and use of style guides created to ensure consistency across a product or web site. The style guide may cover anything from branding, usage of colors, and page layout, to development practices and standards.
Definition from STC
A user interface style guide can serve as:
- A tool for ensuring consistency across a product set
- A way to get groups to work together
- The repository for design guidelines and standards
- A training aid for new members of the product team
The creation of a style guide can serve as a focal activity for an integrated design team involving documentation, development, usability, graphic design, marketing, and other groups. ... The second purpose of a style guide is to describe the guidelines and standards for software or hardware products and (sometimes) the methods for ensuring consistency across products.
Source: Guidance on Style Guides. STC.
Note: UI Style Guides are not the same as Editorial Style Guides and User Interface Guidelines.
Style Guide Authoring
Example Style Guides
- BBC GVL 3.0
- BBC GVL 2.0
- BBC Guidelines
- AARP Style Guide Screenshots
- A List Apart: Style Guide
- Comcast Style Guide
- NYPL Style Guide
- Penn Web Style Guide