styleguide

noun
UK /ˈstaɪl.ɡaɪd/
US /ˈstaɪl.ɡaɪd/

A styleguide is a book of rules that tells people how to write or design things the same way.

The teacher gave us a styleguide so all our reports would look alike.


OTHER MEANINGS

2. A set of rules for how a company's logo, colors, and fonts should look.

The brand styleguide says we must always use the blue logo.

3. A guide that tells writers how to use punctuation and grammar in a certain way.

The newspaper follows a styleguide for capital letters in headlines.

4. A document that helps programmers write code in a neat, matching way.

Our coding styleguide says to use two spaces for indentation.