A style guide ensures your brand voice is heard exactly as you intend in every language. It preserves your brand's message and values through enabling a consistent voice in your written communication. By maintaining consistency you can demonstrate your brand's trustworthiness and increase your perceived reliability. And as a bonus, it saves you time.
Style guides for any language
Every culture has its own linguistic nuances. Cultures also have different ways of presenting names, addresses, units of measurement and abbreviations. These cultural expectations are crucial considerations for your brand's content style guides.
Whether you want your brand’s tone of voice to be formal or informal, use a specific tense or grammatical voice, Semantix helps you identify these conventions – not just in English, but in all your corporate languages.
Why work with Semantix?
Creating a style guide is no simple task. It takes experience and an expert hand to create a style guide that really gets results. That’s where we come in.
We work with you.
We work with you to gather information about your brand's core values, stylistic preferences and much more, to create standardised, easy-to-follow guidelines.
Refine your brand message.
Whether you want a new style guide or a localised version for one of your markets, our experts help you to focus on and refine your brand message for the international marketplace.
Words are our passion.
We don't see the differences between languages and cultures as an obstacle – we see them as an opportunity to engage with the world like never before.
What is a style guide?
A writing style guide, or content style guide, provides a comprehensive framework of editorial conventions and tone-of-voice instructions for writers, translators and content stakeholders to follow.
Take your brand to the next level
Using Semantix writing style guides ensures a consistent editorial style and core message in all content translations
Just as we respond favourably to a familiar human voice, your customers are more responsive to a recognised brand voice. Maintaining brand voice consistency demonstrates your trustworthiness and increases your perceived reliability.
Speed up your workflow
Your content style guides provide a brand-wide reference for translators.
Whatever content your marketing team is localising, it's important your brand voice and message are consistent.
It's also vital that content stakeholders have a reference document on which to base their feedback and validation.
Working within the framework of an editorial style guide also reduces time spent on feedback and editing.
To find out more about our style guides, contact us today
How to write a style guide
In this blog post, you’ll learn why a style guide is important and what can be included in it. Get started with creating your own style guide by downloading our template.