���The Style Guide Guide���

At An Event Apart today, Brad Frost announced the release of “The Style Guide Guide,” a boilerplate template for building style guides for design systems. It’s a terrific starter kit, cribbing the information architecture we’ve found to be most successful in our work on big enterprise design systems.

The Style Guide Guide imports and displays design-pattern HTML from a separate pattern library. Anytime there’s a change in the underlying code of the patterns, the style guide picks it up���always up to date. From there, The Style Guide Guide mixes in your documentation, usage guidelines, and design principles. Because those are entered in Markdown, it’s easy for a whole team to contribute documentation and guidelines, with a very low technical barrier to entry

Brad, Dan, Ian, and I have been using The Style Guide Guide alongside Pattern Lab in our last few design-system projects. It’s proven to be a highly collaborative environment for creating and sharing a design system. (Stay tuned, Brad promises a blog post to walk you through the integration with Pattern Lab, very cool.)

Github | The Style Guide Guide