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Project information
PRISM is a research project on visualization style guide governance and the organizational work that surrounds published design guidance.
Citation
@article{prism2026,
title = {Data Visualization Style Guides in Practice: Why They Emerge, How They Work, and When They Bend},
author = {Alvitta Ottley and Jonathan Schwabish},
journal = {To appear},
year = {2026}
}Note
This site provides project-level information and source metadata. The original style guide documents remain the property of their respective organizations. The companion Guideline Explorer provides access to extracted rule-level guidance where available.