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DigitalOcean Style Guide
Validated on 1 Apr 2024 • Last edited on 17 Apr 2025
The DigitalOcean Style Guide outlines our conscious decisions on grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and other elements of style.
Above all, we make choices to provide clarity to our readers. We also make decisions about the small details to keep our docs consistent and to prevent us and other contributors from repeatedly making the same calls.
When in doubt, we default to the Microsoft style guide, but this style guide supersedes any guidelines from Microsoft.
