The Definitive Guide on the Weapon Finish is a comprehensive compendium on weapon finishes in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive. It was made for finish creators and skins enthusiasts, featuring three chapters; technicals, practicals, and socials, each intended to shed light on a separate part related to weapon finish creation.

I designed it to be a combination of educational and visually engaging, including high-quality illustrations. The compendium borrows its primary colors from the Steam Workshop blue.

Testing was conducted with experienced finish creators and CS:GO players with limited knowledge on skins to establish certain baselines. Visually, the guide has been redesigned three times after release, steadily incorporating a few elements from the Swiss Style for each iteration. It features a consistent, albeit complicated (not complex) design language.

In two separate instances, respectively 2021 and 2022, Valve officially referenced the compendium as a primary source for knowledge on finish creation.