Re: Style guide mindmap

["Rob Hudson" <caveatrob -at- gmail -dot- com>]

I see this more as a "map" that someone could use to develop an
in-house style guide. For example, I might have a node for heading
styles that indicates the attributes "font-size," "font-weight," and
"font-face." The reader of the map then understand that heading styles
should include those attributes in the reader's own style guide.

In other words, it would be more of an outline than a specific choice.
It wouldn't say "use sans-serif fonts for headings," rather, it would
say "heading font" and nodes for "serif" or "sans-serif."

The map might also link to best practices or citations that explain
how you might decide whether to make a font serif or sans-serif.

Does that make it more useful or more clear?

Some high-level topics might be:

type
spacing
colors
bullets and numbering
visuals
embedding
localization issues
navigation
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