Recommended reading

Specialist reading recommended by the content design community.

Books

• Content Design by Sarah Richards

• The Elements of Content Strategy, by Erin Kissane

• Plain Words, by Gowers and Fraser

• Content Strategy for Web, by Kristina Halvorson

• Letting Go of the Words, Writing Web Content that Works, by Janice Redish

• Transform, by Gerry McGovern

• Forms that Work by Caroline Jarrett

Some other style guides we like

• USA.gov bilingual style guide

• 18F content guide

• ‌GPO style guide (pdf to print)

• ‌Austin Digital Services Style Guide

• Shopify Polaris‌GDS online forms guide

Other resources

• Federal plain language website

• Hemingway editor

• Readability Guidelines from Content Design London

Content collections

• Content Strategy Resources from Qordoba