DigitalOcean Style Guide

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.

Word usage, mechanics, and other linguistic conventions.
Grammar, punctuation, capitalization, and other details.
How to talk about DigitalOcean and its products.
DigitalOcean’s brand voice is straightforward, friendly, earnest, and inclusive.