Typography for Lawyers

May 11, 2010

“Even though the legal profession depends heavily on writing, legal typography is often poor”Matthew Butterick

I had stumbled upon Typography for Lawyers a few weeks ago, but hadn’t had the time to read through it all until recently. Created by Matthew Butterick, a Harvard graduate with a degree in art, I found his site on typography refreshing and dead on. Now as a lawyer himself, he hopes to “fill the void” of the lack of information on the basics of good typography, which the legal profession is heavily dependent on as one could imagine. Want to know the optimal percentage for line spacing dependent on font size? Or how about the difference between scaled small caps and real small caps? As I was reading through I couldn’t help but think how much of a great reference this could be to pass along to any new designer, and they don’t even need to be a lawyer to understand; bookmarked.

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