house style

British

noun

a set of rules concerning spellings, typography, etc, observed by editorial and printing staff in a particular publishing or printing company

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While the 12Cilindri is technically evolved from the 812 Competizione, the new car’s styling represents a major change in Ferrari’s house style.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025

Coogler and actor Adrien Brody both wore broad-shouldered suits paired with T-shirts and more formalist cummerbunds — a house style of Fear of God.

From Los Angeles Times • May 6, 2025

The Ghibli house style has been refined to perfection at this point.

From Salon • Dec. 23, 2023

The well-trimmed lawns and planned informality of gardens and ponds adjacent to the house partly reflect the English and French traditions inspired by the house style itself — nature adapted to create aesthetic effects.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 14, 2023

It is an unhappy irony that in a play about collusion they could not collude on a house style.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022

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