What's Your Type?

I ran across Matthew Butterick's wonderful Typography for Lawyers site today and wanted to share it here. Matthew's a typographer turned civil litigator who started the site to help lawyers write prettier -- if not better.

Why does typography matter?

When you show up to make an oral argument, you make sure that you present yourself as professionally and persuasively as possible. Similarly, your written documents should reflect the same level of attention to typography.

I highly recommend you add this to your reading list. Now, if I could just stop hitting the space bar twice after each period.

Comments

[Brett]

That "one space between sentences" rule is a tough one to get used to. It's not that I'm resisting, I've just been doing it for so long that a period is automatically followed by two spaces. (Even in this comment, I had to go back and edit to remove extra spaces!)