# Style Guide

- **Website:** <https://styleguide.nz>
- **Primary alias:** `styleguide.nz`

## Description

The New Zealand Style Guide is an online writing and editorial reference for people creating documents in New Zealand English. It brings together practical guidance on spelling, grammar, punctuation, terminology, formatting, and presentation, helping users produce clear and consistent content. Entries are arranged alphabetically, with an A–Z navigation system that makes individual topics easy to find. The guide covers common questions such as word choice, abbreviations, capitalisation, hyphenation, apostrophes, and inclusive language, as well as topics including accessibility and writing for digital content. It gives concise explanations and examples to show how recommended conventions work in practice, and notes alternatives or exceptions where relevant. The resource also reflects New Zealand usage, including guidance on local names and terms. Rather than offering physical products, the New Zealand Style Guide provides an accessible digital style manual for writers, editors, communicators, and anyone preparing written material for New Zealand audiences. Its searchable, topic-based format supports quick reference as well as more detailed checks during drafting and editing.

## Industries

- 🗺 Reference Materials
- 🗺 Dictionaries and Encyclopedias _(under Reference Materials)_

## Logos & icons

- logo _(primary)_ — PNG — [download](https://cdn.brandfetch.io/idziyDViFY/w/200/h/139/theme/dark/logo.png?c=1bxid64Mup7aczewSAYMX&t=1792838472250)

## Colors

| Name | Hex | Theme |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Brandy | #d9be89 | accent |
| Desert | #b65f1f | dark |
| Manhattan | #f6ce8e | light |

## Fonts

- ibmpsans — asset _(custom)_
- ibmpsans — asset _(custom)_

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