The HCi Style Guide is intended for use by our staff and clients.

New: Version 4

Version 4 of the HCi Style Guide is available only in printed form. Rewritten completely in 2017/18 it contains advice for Technical Writers, Business Analysts, Instructional Designers, Bid Writers, Procedure Writers and Content Developers.

You can get a copy either by:

  • contacting HCi (it’s normally free to clients), or
  • buying it online through Amazon

Version 3.2

The older version of the HCi Style Guide is still available for free online, although we recommend the new version instead.

Please contact us for copyright terms and conditions.

This is a 300K A4 PDF version of the published HCi Style Guide. This will allow you to view or print the HCi Style Guide.

This is a 50K Word (.doc) file which contains the page layout and all of the Word styles you will need to create documents based on the HCi style. To get the Word template to work properly put it into your Word Templates directory.

This is a 60K zip file containing a group of FrameMaker 6.0 documents which contain the page layout and all of the styles you will need to create FrameMaker documents based on the HCi style.