House Style

A key part of my research when creating my ancillary tasks was to research the format of "house style". This is a style guide that sets standards for the writing and design of documents, either for general use or for a specific publication. The style guide provides consistency in style and formatting of a document. Many publications use style guides to demonstrate the preferred layout and formatting of a published page. They often are extremely detailed in specifying, for example, which fonts and colours to use. Such guides allow a large design team to produce visually consistent work for the organisation.


I intend on following the house style format for my media magazine as this will allow my audience to read through the magazine as they have been brought up to read a magazine and signs due to their social upbringing in the 21st century.