Admin Style Guide
The Admin guide sets our foundational design, writing, and content standards for the Admin software. For more specific user-interface standards, see the Admin Design Pattern Library.
Why follow the style guide? A style guide is the best tool for designers and writers to establish and maintain consistency, which improves communication throughout the application. A seamless look-and-feel and a steady, encouraging writing style make the application usable and engaging.
To get started or refresh your knowledge, read the following documents:
Design
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Color — Reflects our brand personality, meeting accessibility standards.
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Iconography — Provides a visual representation of functionality or content, usually paired and displayed with a label.
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Page Grid — Establishes global layouts for page templates and how content and design patterns can be placed in the grids’ columns.
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Typography — Sets page hierarchy and content type specifications.
Writing and Content
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Voice and Tone — Outlines a set of ground rules to engage and empower users as they navigate the Admin and perform tasks with confidence and ease.
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Errors and Messages Writing — Establishes how to communicate with users when errors occur or important information needs to be communicated.
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Buttons and Links Usage — Defines the differences between buttons and links and when they can be used as calls to action.
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Capitalization — Provides guidance for how we use sentence case, title case, and all caps.
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Headings and Organization — Prioritizes content and creates a hierarchy for users to easily navigate Admin.
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Content Formats — Standardizes abbreviations, acronyms, file-type formats, addresses, and lists.
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Number Formats — Lists basic numeric and heading standards and covers percentages, money, and dates and times.