How the Guardian went digital, and how it manages it’s graphic standards today.
At the start of 1995 only 491 newspapers were online worldwide. 18 months later that number had grown to some 3,600. The Guardian, then a small lefty UK paper was one of the first to make a serious play to learn how to navigate what was then called the Information Superhighway. Today they are powerhouse of internet journalism. Alan Rusbridger has an in-depth story at Longreads that chronicles how they pulled it off: How the Guardian Went Digital.
Of course digital style standards are a completely different beast than print standards, and lucky for us the Guardian shares their’s online.
If you are responsible in any way for the development or the maintenance of digital style standards, this is required reading.
Digital Style Guide: Thinking Outside the News in Boxes