diff --git a/cmake/modules/BasicConfig.cmake b/cmake/modules/BasicConfig.cmake
index 6d25d46..3f96306 100644
--- a/cmake/modules/BasicConfig.cmake
+++ b/cmake/modules/BasicConfig.cmake
@@ -161,4 +161,38 @@ else()
     set(QUICK_GUI OFF)
 endif()
 
+# find coding style (use style from c++utilities if none included in own project dir)
+set(CLANG_FORMAT_RULES "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/coding-style.clang-format")
+if(CPP_UTILITIES_SOURCE_DIR AND NOT EXISTS "${CLANG_FORMAT_RULES}")
+    set(CLANG_FORMAT_RULES "${CPP_UTILITIES_SOURCE_DIR}/coding-style.clang-format")
+endif()
+if(NOT EXISTS "${CLANG_FORMAT_RULES}")
+    set(CLANG_FORMAT_RULES "${CPP_UTILITIES_CONFIG_DIRS}/codingstyle.clang-format")
+endif()
+
+# add target for tidying with clang-format
+if(EXISTS "${CLANG_FORMAT_RULES}")
+    find_program(CLANG_FORMAT_BIN clang-format)
+    if(CLANG_FORMAT_BIN)
+        add_custom_target("${TARGET_PREFIX}${META_PROJECT_NAME}${TARGET_SUFFIX}_tidy"
+            COMMAND "${CLANG_FORMAT_BIN}" -style=file -i ${HEADER_FILES} ${SRC_FILES} ${WIDGETS_FILES} ${QML_FILES}
+            WORKING_DIRECTORY "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}"
+            COMMENT "Tidying ${META_PROJECT_NAME} sources using clang-format"
+        )
+        if(NOT TARGET tidy)
+            add_custom_target(tidy)
+        endif()
+        add_dependencies(tidy "${TARGET_PREFIX}${META_PROJECT_NAME}${TARGET_SUFFIX}_tidy")
+        add_custom_target("${TARGET_PREFIX}${META_PROJECT_NAME}${TARGET_SUFFIX}_link_codingstyle"
+            COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E create_symlink "${CLANG_FORMAT_RULES}" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/.clang-format"
+            COMMENT "Linking coding style from ${CLANG_FORMAT_RULES}"
+        )
+        add_dependencies("${TARGET_PREFIX}${META_PROJECT_NAME}${TARGET_SUFFIX}_tidy" "${TARGET_PREFIX}${META_PROJECT_NAME}${TARGET_SUFFIX}_link_codingstyle")
+    else()
+        message(WARNING "clang-format not found; unable to add tidy target")
+    endif()
+else()
+    message(WARNING "No rules to invoke clang-format for ${META_PROJECT_NAME} present")
+endif()
+
 set(BASIC_PROJECT_CONFIG_DONE YES)
diff --git a/coding-style.clang-format b/coding-style.clang-format
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8fdddd3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/coding-style.clang-format
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+---
+Language:        Cpp
+# BasedOnStyle:  WebKit
+AccessModifierOffset: -4
+AlignAfterOpenBracket: DontAlign
+AlignConsecutiveAssignments: false
+AlignConsecutiveDeclarations: false
+AlignEscapedNewlinesLeft: false
+AlignOperands:   false
+AlignTrailingComments: false
+AllowAllParametersOfDeclarationOnNextLine: true
+AllowShortBlocksOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortCaseLabelsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortFunctionsOnASingleLine: None
+AllowShortIfStatementsOnASingleLine: false
+AllowShortLoopsOnASingleLine: false
+AlwaysBreakAfterDefinitionReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakAfterReturnType: None
+AlwaysBreakBeforeMultilineStrings: false
+AlwaysBreakTemplateDeclarations: false
+BinPackArguments: true
+BinPackParameters: true
+BraceWrapping:
+  AfterClass:      false
+  AfterControlStatement: false
+  AfterEnum:       false
+  AfterFunction:   true
+  AfterNamespace:  false
+  AfterObjCDeclaration: false
+  AfterStruct:     false
+  AfterUnion:      false
+  BeforeCatch:     false
+  BeforeElse:      false
+  IndentBraces:    false
+BreakBeforeBinaryOperators: All
+BreakBeforeBraces: WebKit
+BreakBeforeTernaryOperators: true
+BreakConstructorInitializersBeforeComma: true
+BreakAfterJavaFieldAnnotations: false
+BreakStringLiterals: true
+ColumnLimit:     150
+CommentPragmas:  '^ IWYU pragma:'
+ConstructorInitializerAllOnOneLineOrOnePerLine: false
+ConstructorInitializerIndentWidth: 4
+ContinuationIndentWidth: 4
+Cpp11BracedListStyle: false
+DerivePointerAlignment: false
+DisableFormat:   false
+ExperimentalAutoDetectBinPacking: false
+ForEachMacros:   [ foreach, Q_FOREACH, BOOST_FOREACH ]
+IncludeCategories:
+  - Regex:           '^"(llvm|llvm-c|clang|clang-c)/'
+    Priority:        2
+  - Regex:           '^(<|"(gtest|isl|json)/)'
+    Priority:        3
+  - Regex:           '.*'
+    Priority:        1
+IncludeIsMainRegex: '$'
+IndentCaseLabels: false
+IndentWidth:     4
+IndentWrappedFunctionNames: false
+JavaScriptQuotes: Leave
+JavaScriptWrapImports: true
+KeepEmptyLinesAtTheStartOfBlocks: true
+MacroBlockBegin: ''
+MacroBlockEnd:   ''
+MaxEmptyLinesToKeep: 1
+NamespaceIndentation: None
+ObjCBlockIndentWidth: 4
+ObjCSpaceAfterProperty: true
+ObjCSpaceBeforeProtocolList: true
+PenaltyBreakBeforeFirstCallParameter: 19
+PenaltyBreakComment: 300
+PenaltyBreakFirstLessLess: 120
+PenaltyBreakString: 1000
+PenaltyExcessCharacter: 1000000
+PenaltyReturnTypeOnItsOwnLine: 60
+PointerAlignment: Right
+ReflowComments:  false
+SortIncludes:    true
+SpaceAfterCStyleCast: false
+SpaceBeforeAssignmentOperators: true
+SpaceBeforeParens: ControlStatements
+SpaceInEmptyParentheses: false
+SpacesBeforeTrailingComments: 1
+SpacesInAngles:  false
+SpacesInContainerLiterals: true
+SpacesInCStyleCastParentheses: false
+SpacesInParentheses: false
+SpacesInSquareBrackets: false
+Standard:        Cpp03
+TabWidth:        8
+UseTab:          Never
+...
+