: Typographical styling of UI text in document What are the usual typographical conventions to set off text from the UI in a user manual? For example, how should I style the text of the label

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The style I see most often in technical writing is that UI labels, like the names of menus, are bold:

From the File menu, choose Save.
Click the Submit button.

Variable text is usually italic, but this comes up more for command-line interfaces than GUIs:

git checkout -b branch-name

In writing about a GUI you're more likely to describe what's needed, which doesn't require styling:

In the Path field, type the name of the top-level directory for the new project.

The Microsoft Style Guide calls for bold for GUI labels and italics for variables, as I've used them here.

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