Looking for examples of how to write a style guide? We’ve compiled this list to give you different examples to get you started.
How to Create a Style Guide
- Brain Traffic — Web Content style guides that Don’t Suck
- Creative Blog — Create a website style guide
- Gather Content — Developing a Content style guide
- HubSpot — How to Create a Writing style guide Built for the Web
- Meet Content — Editorial Style for the Web
- Pebble Road — Creating and maintaining a web style guide
- Pressly — 5 style guides for better content
- Stanford — Creating a web style guide
- UCR — Writing for the Web, Content Guidelines
- Unbound — 7 things to put into a web style guide
Brand Identity and Logo Guidelines
- 3M — logo standards
- ABB — brand Identity
- ACDSee — brand style guide
- Air Products — identity standards
- Barbican — visual identity
- Bby —brand Identity
- Brick — brand guidelines
- Cargill — Identity style guide
- Easy Group — brand manual (PDF)
- Federal — identity program
- Heineken — Brand Manual
- Kew — brand guidelines (PDF)
- Novozyme — brand guide
- RSA — brand standards
- University of Northern Colorado — Identity style guide (PDF)
- WebEx — brand style guide
Business, Corporate
- Ben and Jerry
- Blue Cross Blue Shield
- Bookatable
- Charity Water
- Clearleft
- Code Guide
- DanDen
- Do Something
- Estate Sales
- Frost Finery
- Gravity Dept
- HeroKuapp
- Homify
- Jobs — User Interface Guidelines
- Maban
- MezzoBlue
- OLI JP
- Oliver Makes
- Paste Up
- Paul Robert Lloyd
- Saijo George
- Scouting
- Sky Global
- Sunlight Foundation
- Taligent — Human Interface Guidelines
- TutPlus
- VistaMedia — Web Content style guide
- WearNext
Colleges, Universities
- Academic Health Center Resource — Web Content Guide
- Antioch University — AU Web style guide [PDF]
- Cambridge University Brand Manual
- Castleton College — Content style guide ·
- CMU
- Code For America
- Columbia University — Web Reference Guide
- Cunard Brand Guidelines
- Normandale Community College
- Ohlone College
- University of Alberta
- University of Denver
- University of Edinburgh — Editorial guidelines
- University of Pennsylvania — Web Services style guide
- University of San Francisco — Web Content Strategies
- University of Toronto — OISE MINI STYLE GUIDE FOR WEB [PDF]
- University of Washington Bothell — Web Content Guidelines
- University Website Office — Content Guidelines
- WVU
- Yale Web style guide
- Yale’s Visual Identity
- Stanford
- Starbucks
- Indiana University School of Music
- JSU
- Hampshire College — Web Writing style guide
- Lafayette College
- Luther College
- Miami University — Web Content style guide
- National PTA — Website style guide [PDF]
- New York University — Writing for the Web
- Northwestern University —Web style guide
- Princeton — Creating Website Information Architecture [PDF]
- The New School Visual Identity Manual (PDF)
- The New School Web style guide
- UCC: Writing for the Web [PDF]
- Wake Forest University
- Western State Colorado
- Worcester State University — Website Content style guide [PDF]
- PSU — QUICK GUIDE [PDF]
- Whistler
- IS&T
- Spelman College Visual Identity Guidelines (PDF)
- University of Miami — Visual Identity Guidelines: Web style guide
Internet business
- 53 — Typography
- Android User Interface Guidelines
- Android
- Blackboard
- ESB [PDF]
- ESRC — Web content style guide
- GitHub — Content style guide
- GitHub — CSS style guide
- GitHub
- GitHub
- Google Code
- Google Developers — Written style guide
- Hailo
- iOS Design
- iPhone Human Interface Guidelines
- MapBox
- Mozilla
- Uber — Brand Guidelines
- Ubuntu
- Woo Themes
- WordPress — Coding Standards
- Yellow Shoe — Standards
- Yelp
- Isobar
Government
- Alberta
- Alpha Gov
- Belfast Zoo Brand guidelines
- Canadian Style!
- CMS.GOV
- ELMER — User Interface Guidelines for Government Web Forms
- EPA — Styling your Content with CSS
- Gnome — Human Interface Guidelines
- Gov UK
- GOV.UK — Content design
- HHS.gov
- LSE — Editorial web style guide
- NASA web style guide
- New Zealand Government
- NGS
- NHS
- ONS
- Ordnance Survey UK
Mobile
Media
- BBC
- BBC — Programs style guide
- BBC — Future Media Standards & Guidelines
- BBC — Global Experience Language (GEL)
- Channel 4
- Future Learn
- Guardian and The Observer
- Lonely Planet
- Reuters — Brand Center
- Voice and Tone
SaaS
- Barricade
- Kissmetrics — This style guide will help you create visually consistent articles for the Kissmetrics Support site. Articles are written in Markdown and automatically converted to HTML.
- SaSS
- SaaS Lang
- Web Experience Toolkit
Social Media
Technology Style Guides
- Adobe
- Apple — Safari Web Content Guide
- Atlassian
- Blackberry — UI Developers Guide
- Dell — Design Library
- DropBox
- Drupal, Content
- Eclipse — User Interface Guidelines
- Fellowship One — Patterns
- IBM — Redbooks style guide
- IBM — developerWorks style guide
- Microsoft Inductive User Interface Guidelines
- Microsoft Surface User Experience Guidelines
- Microsoft Windows
- Microsoft Windows User Experience Guidelines
- Microsoft Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines
- Microsoft WindowsXP Design Guidelines (EXE file))
- MIIS — Web Strategy
- MITRE— Guidelines for designing user interface software
- Nokia — Design and User Experience Library
- Open Table
- Oracle — Java Look and Feel Design Guidelines
- Oracle Technology Network Guidelines
- Palm — User Interface & Human Interface Guidelines
- SAP — Design Guild
- SAP — Interaction Design Guide for Internet Application Components
- SAP — User Interface guidelines
- Silicon Graphics — Indigo Magic User Interface Guidelines
Web Design Style Guides
- A List Apart
- ALA
- Barnard Levit
- Boxes and Arrows – House style guide
- CSS Guidelines
- Deviant Art
- Dubizzle
- Epic Content Marketing — Sample style guide [PDF]
- Font Shop
- Goal Gorilla
- KDE — User Interface Guidelines
- Made With Dough
- Max Quattromani