Glossary & Style Guide


Keeping a consistent tone throughout your translation is important. We highly recommend that locale managers create both a glossary and style guide for their language. These needn’t be large or complex, but it’s important to cover the edge cases specific to your language.

Glossary

A glossary for translators is a list of terms with translations. Some tools and projects may also refer to it as term list, terminology list, or termbase.

Example of a locale glossary (French)

To learn how to get started with building your locale glossary, visit the Building the Glossary page:

Style Guide

A style guide is a document that explains the guideline for how to translate. It’s also called translation manual, style manual, or translation stylebook.

Example of a style guide page on Italian Rosetta site Handbook section

For more detailed instruction for building a style guide, visit the Building a Style Guide page.