Style Guides for Landscape Documentation

This section will help you create a design documentation style

What is a Style Guide?

A style guide is a document which sets out standard communication styles for your business helping you create consistent, quality documents.


What is included?

Many different things can be included in a style guide dependent on the industry.

For plans and documents in landscape design there are few common elements that are helpful:

  • Fonts

  • Font Styles

  • Font Sizes

  • Indents

  • Line Spacing

  • Email sign-offs

  • Grammar

  • Colour Schemes

  • Placement of elements

  • Titleblocks

  • Drawing labels

  • Annotations


Text Examples

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Body Text

Botanical naming

Session Outline

  • What is a style guide

  • What is included?

  • Examples of Style Guides

Presentations

Resources