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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
Email
Intuit – email style guide PDF
MailChimp — Brand Assets
MailChimp
MailChimp — Patterns
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
CF Apps
Code Pen
English Extra
Envato
Pivotal
Racker Labs
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
Buffer
Buzzfeed
Disqus
Facebook Brand
Skype — Brand Guidelines
Spotify — Branding Guidelines
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