CLEO’s House style guide revised and online

CLEO is excited to share our updated house style guide.

Having a house style guide helps us ensure that our information is:

  • clear
  • inclusive
  • relevant to our audience

This is the first time that we’ve put our house style online. We hope that it will help others who also produce legal information for the public.

Learn how to:

  • apply plain language principles
  • keep sentences and paragraphs short
  • use simple words and phrases
  • avoid jargon
  • write bulleted lists

We have a separate guide on clear design tips. And our guide on inclusive language is coming soon.

You can find all of these resources at cleo.on.ca/plain-language.