Cardiff Council Content and design system

www.cardiff.gov.uk

Content

Style guide

LinksFormatting text (using bold, italic and underlined text)Abbreviations and acronymsAlternative textBulleted listsCapital lettersDates, times, phone numbers and addressesHeadingsActive languagePunctuationSentence structure

Plain language

Plain language

Content principles

Online content principlesCreate accessible documents

Content formats

PDFs and other documentsEmbedding videos

Capital letters

We capitalise the first word of the sentence, as well as proper nouns and names.

We only capitalise these words when they are specific to a named person:

  • Joe Bloggs, Website Editor
  • The editor, the website editor
  • Contact the waste management team

We will always use a capital H for Hubs.

We do not capitalise these common words and phrases:

  • council tax
  • email
  • disabled
  • strategy, policy, plan
  • mental health
  • additional learning needs
  • libraries
  • seasons, for example, spring, summer, autumn, and winter