The complete editorial standards file in Markdown. Six sections covering voice, cadence, prose rules, typography, content structure, and a pre-publish checklist.
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The editorial standards document is a single Markdown file designed to be dropped into any LLM system prompt, editorial workflow, or CI linting pipeline. It is self-contained and has no external dependencies.
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Document structure
01
Voice and Tone
Objective authority, attribution of value judgments
02
Prose Cadence
Six antipatterns with before/after examples
03
General Prose Rules
Six principles for connected writing
04
Visual Standards
Heading font, title emphasis, font stack, hover states
05
Content Structure
Article format, table of contents conventions
06
Checklist
Seven-item pre-publish verification
Explorer
Interactive tree viewer
This document is freely available for use in any editorial workflow.