# Style Rules for the User Guide

Style rules are not concrete writing rules. Instead, they are style choices. There are no concrete right or wrong ways to choose style rules. However, it is important to be consistent with style choices to make documentation readable and appealing. You certainly do not want to irritate your audience by using multiple, inconsistent, and incompatible styles.

To maintain consistent, readable, and visually appealing documentation, we will use a number of Style Rules for the oXygen User Guide.