Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is creating a style guide after project completion out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. A visual style guide is a design-documentation task, not something a development scope covers.
This request occasionally reaches the dev side when a client's internal team wants "documentation" and isn't sure whether that means a code-level style guide or a visual brand reference.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. A visual style guide (colors, type, spacing rules) is design documentation; it's a different deliverable from any code-level documentation a build might include.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — Visual style-guide documentation is excluded from a development scope as design-side work.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
A visual style guide — colors, type, spacing — is design documentation rather than something the development scope covers. Worth checking whether that's something design already delivered.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags visual style-guide requests outside_scope on development contracts, distinguishing them from technical or code-level documentation.