Style guide

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The Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk style guide
'The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature'
Robert Louis Stevenson
Edited by David Marsh and Amelia Hodsdon

Last updated: October 2009
Illustrations by Jakob Hinrichs
Refer to Collins English Dictionary (8th edition, 2006) for guidance on anything that does not appear in the style guide
email: style.guide@guardian.co.uk

The Guardian, Observer and guardian.co.uk style guide