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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}
}

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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.