Grammar

Capitalization

• Use title case for headers, titles, and link titles.

• Use sentence case for items in bulleted and numbered lists.

• For companies, organizations, software, and similar things, use the capitalization of the project.

Exclamation Marks

• Use exclamation marks very sparingly.

Hyphens

• Use hyphenated compound modifiers, unless the adjectival phrase includes -ly.

  The file has DigitalOcean-specific syntax. The automatically provisioned server includes an active firewall.

• Use suspended hyphens.

Numbers

• Spell out numbers less than 10 and numbers that begin sentences.

  Forty thousand developers. Two Droplets.

• Use numerals if a number is paired with a unit of bits/bytes, for currency, and in ranges.

Punctuation

Periods

• Use a single space to separate sentences.

• If the items in a bulleted or numbered list are sentences themselves or are a continuation of the sentence that introduced the list, then use a period at the end of item. If the items are nouns, then do not use a period.