Style sheet

WDS style sheet

Note: This guide contains both project-specific capitalizations and more widely used capitalizations. Mainly, it’s intended to serve as a cheat sheet for folks working on Standards documentation.

If you feel a certain word ought to be included here, add it! You should also feel free to add more broadly applicable style recommendations if you have them. Whenever you update this guide, please also update the Last updated line at the top of the page.

A

B

C

• CONTRIBUTING
• CSS

D

• Design System (shorthand for U.S. Web Design System)

E

F

G

• GitHub
• gulp (lowercase except for logo)

H

I

J

• JavaScript
• jQuery

K

L

• LICENSE

M

• minified (opposite: un-minified)

N

• node
• npm (for node package manager; use the lowercase)

O

P

Q

R

• README (all caps), README.md

S

• Sass

T

U

• USWDS (abbreviation of U.S. Web Design System)

V

W

• wiki (or Design System wiki)

X/Y/Z