From the course: Developing a Style Guide
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Format of a style guide
- [Instructor] So, what will be the format of your style guide? Will it be a custom book or a brochure? Will it be on the web as a micro-site? Will the pages be laser printed and put into a binder? Or, will it be a screen PDF, possibly an interactive PDF? In the case of the Roux Academy guidelines, I've opted for a simple interactive PDF. This has the following benefits. It's accessible, cheap, and saves paper. Revisions can easily be made. I'm going to point out a few aspects of its design. It was created in Adobe InDesign. Since the document is to be view onscreen, I've chosen a landscape orientation. I've chosen the page size of US Letter, so that if your user wants to print the document, they can do so easily. Depending on where you are, you might want to opt to use an A4 page instead. The table of contents provides an overview of the structure of the document and is hyperlinked to the different sections for easy…
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