Foursquare’s Official Style Guide

This is the official style guide that appears on the add/edit venue pages of Foursquare’s site. Unfortunately it’s not possible to link directly to it, so we’ve added it here for reference.

  • For chains or venues with multiple locations, you no longer need to add a location suffix. So “Starbucks”
    or “Apple Store” is fine (instead of “Starbucks – Queen Anne” or “Apple Store – Uptown”).
  • When possible stick with abbreviations: “Ave” instead of “Avenue”, “St” instead “Street”, etc
  • Cross Street should be like one of the following:
    • at Main St (for venues on a corner)
    • btw 2nd & 3rd Ave (for venues in the middle of a block)
  • Cross Street should not repeat the name of the street in the address.
  1. #1 by Ilyichevsk on August 11, 2011 - 6:57 am

    I’m using two languages for new venues because of local needs and names are very long. Would like to see Foursquare with multi language interface.

  2. #2 by sabre23t on August 20, 2011 - 8:38 pm

    https://foursquare.com/admin/ links to this style guide
    http://foursquare.zendesk.com/entries/214565-is-there-a-style-guide-for-adding-venues.

    It elaborates a bit more and have “Ave.” instead of “Ave” above.

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