WHY
If you're like me, you find yourself using common design components from one website to the next. You could grab the lastest and greatest framework and use that to handle these common components, or you could roll your own framework. Style Guide Boilerplate is geared for people interested in creating their own "tiny Bootstraps".
Style Guides:
- Promote consistency
- Promote modular thinking
- Add clarity to the parts and pieces that make up your website
- Increase efficiency when editing a website
WHAT
Style Guide Boilerplate is made up of 5 different parts.
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About Section:
A place to talk about your project's style guide and how awesome it is.
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Fonts Section:
A place to document the font-stacks used on your project's site.
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Colors Section:
A place to document the main colors used on your project's site.
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Base Styles Section:
A place for common HTML elements. If you’re familiar with SMACSS, you already know what base styles are for. These are styles for things like headings, blockquotes, tabular data.
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Pattern Styles Section:
A place to list all of the common design components. This is a great place to add modular pieces of markup for things like pagination, buttons, alerts, etc., though you can also add custom styles for base elements like headings, blockquotes, tabular data here too.