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CFPB Design Manual

Overview
Best practices
Brand guidelines
Global elements
Page components
Data visualization

Accessibility best practices
Design principles
Form best practices

Best practices

These guides present strategies and guiding principles for building effective, accessible, and user-centered products and services.

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Open source

This project is maintained by The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The source code is available at github.com/cfpb/design-manual

As a work of the United States Government, source code released by the CFPB is in the public domain by default within the United States. View our full source code policy.

A note about our standards

These standards reflect our latest thinking and are just beginning to be incorporated into the CFPB's most recent projects. See these standards in practice in eRegs, Consumer Response, and HMDA.