Style Guide Development

Companies that operate internationally need to ensure consistent verbal and visual communication in all countries and languages. CLS can help you by developing corporate wording and design guidelines for the people in your organization to follow. These style guides define the nitty-gritty aspects of the language that are often glossed over, but need to be tackled. For instance, does your firm write currency amounts with 'CHF' or 'SFr' as an abbreviation for Swiss francs? CLS terminologists work with you to draw up transparent and comprehensive guidelines.

Your staff benefit from a useful reference work that defines the formal aspects of communication in all languages, from how currencies are written to the format used for telephone numbers. Our clients are often very keen to avoid certain wording or formats for legal reasons, and a style guide can provide hard and fast rules to that end. To help you even more, the CLS Style Guide Checker is a cost-effective IT tool that can check electronic documents for compliance with your style guide in a matter of seconds.