According to Wikipedia, a UI style guide is a ‘set of standards for the writing and design of documents’ and that it ‘ensures consistency and enforces best practice in usage.’ All very true. But what it neglects to mention is how inspiring UI style guides can be just to look at and get lost in.

In much the same way as we found wireframe sketching and brand identities incredibly inspirational, web UI style guides have the same effect.

Check out this fantastic selection of UI style guides…

Inspirational UI Style Guides

Crunch Time Style Guide by Brian Athey

NRMA Style Guide by Nomad Agency

Ui Style App by Nick Zhukov

Style Tile by Facundo Gonzalez

Reimagining Codecademy by Manuel Lima

UI Style Guide by Greg Dlubacz

Finalising a Style Guide by Luke Taylor

Airbnb UI Toolkit by Derek Bradley

Visual Style Application by Nick Zhukov

UI Style Guide by Alex Gilev

App Style Guide by Marcelo Pérez

Style Guide Mania by Bill S Kenney

Medium.com Ui Style Guide by Teehan+Lax

Product Style Guide &Visual Guidelines by Salesforce1