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Style may refer to:

  • Design, the process of creating something
  • Fashion, a prevailing mode of expression, e.g., clothing
  • Literary style, an aspect of literary composition
  • Format, various terms that refer to the style of different things
  • Genre, a loose set of criteria for a category or composition
  • Human physical appearance
  • Typeface, style is one of the three traditional design features along with size and weight: either regular, italic or condensed

Style, in specific fields, may also refer to:

  • Style (visual arts), in art and painting style can refer either to the aesthetic values followed in choosing what to paint (and how) or to the physical techniques employed
  • Style (botany), a stalk structure in female flower parts
  • Style (manner of address), titles or honorifics, including Chinese courtesy names

Music

Film and television

Literature, linguistics, and rhetoric

Other uses

See also

  • Stile, a step used for crossing a fence
  • Stylus, a writing instrument