Document your product copy rules, and build your content design system with Ditto style guides. Build out each rule or import your existing style guide into Ditto, to document standards around tone, language, formatting, and more. Use Ditto's default style guide or create your own, then leverage Ditto’s AI capabilities to enforce your style guide as you, or your teammates, draft new copy.
Style guide basics
Your style guide contains a prewritten set of rules to enforces your product copy standards. Ditto's AI will use these rules to edit all the text in your projects (whether you've imported it to Ditto or not!) and surface any suggestions through our Magic Edit AI.
Use style guides rules to...
Build a glossary of approved and disapproved words
Provide voice and tone guidelines
Outline approved sentence structures
Add text formatting and linting
See all your style guides by navigating to the Style guide tab in the web app.
Create your custom style guide
Ditto provides a default style guide for you to use in your projects, but you can also create your own style guides and custom rules. Refer to your workspace to see the limits on the number of style guides and rules.
Create a style guide:
Click + New style guide
Name your style guide and click Create
Create a rule
When you add a new rule, you have to provide at least one example to train your AI model, so it understands the context to appropriately apply the rule to your copy. The more specific you are, and the more examples you provide, the better the suggestions will be.
Create a rule:
Click + Add rule in your style guide
Give the rule a name and description
[Optional] Add target tags so the AI knows which text items to apply this rule to. If no tags are included, the rule will be applied to all text items in your project
Provide at least one example, then click Add rule
💡 For vocabulary, formatting, and general best practices, it’s possible to only provide the do examples and skip the don’t
Delete a rule
Click on the rule you want to delete in your style guide
Click Delete
Delete a style guide
Click the … menu and select Delete style guide
Enter the name and click Delete
Enable a style guide for Ditto projects
Enable or disable specific style guides for each Ditto project to ensure that only the relevant rules are enforced.
Enable/disable a style guide for a project from the plugin:
Click … in the Figma plugin and select Settings
Enable or disable the relevant style guides for this project
Enable/disable a style guide for a project from the web app:
Click … in the web app and select Style guides
Enable or disable the relevant style guides for this project
Enable a style guide by default for all projects
For commonly used style guides, enable them to be on by default so its rules are automatically used in all projects. Newly created style guides are enabled by default.
Enable a style guide to be on by default:
Select the relevant style guide
Toggle the guide to be Enabled by default
💡 Style guide enabled by default can be disabled for specific projects