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Typography for Lawyers

84 点作者 fixie大约 15 年前

10 条评论

sunchild大约 15 年前
I like the spirit of this. Personally, I'd love to see lawyers move toward plain text (to make it easy to process legal documents as raw data) rather than toward more sophisticated presentation text, but that's just my bias.<p>Of course, the two aims are not mutually exclusive.
pak大约 15 年前
Kerning is not enabled by default in Word?<p><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=766" rel="nofollow">http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=766</a><p>You have to activate it by checking a box in the Font dialog box... so irrational it's painful to contemplate.<p>I can imagine they did this for backward compatibility's sake (kerning would impact page layout), but consider the fact that 90% of the word processed documents produced today have crappy kerning because it was hidden behind a checkbox nobody will ever touch.
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iamwil大约 15 年前
"The first problem is that it isn’t professional. Dressing properly is one way we signal to clients, other attorneys, and judges that we take our work seriously and we take court seriously."<p>Though I also think typography is important, you end up with a lot of non-serious and bad lawyers simply looking serious with good typography because that's what the serious and good lawyers do. Bad content is still bad content no matter how you dress it up.<p>And when typography is used as a signal, as more bad lawyers adopt it, it becomes a less and less effective signal--until it becomes standard fare, and not useful at all for telling serious lawyers from non-serious ones.
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theli0nheart大约 15 年前
Is there a "Typography for Programmers"? I could really use one of those...
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hy3lxs大约 15 年前
Thank you for telling people that it's one space after sentences and not two in modern typography.<p><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=12" rel="nofollow">http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=12</a>
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paulgerhardt大约 15 年前
The bit about Times Roman and Times New Roman is fascinating:<p><i>Think of Monotype vs. Linotype as the Depression-era Mac vs. Windows and you’ve got it...(In fact, when it came time to license fonts for their operating systems, Microsoft licensed Times New Roman from Monotype and Apple licensed Times Roman from Linotype, perpetuating the schism.)</i><p><a href="http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=687" rel="nofollow">http://www.typographyforlawyers.com/?p=687</a>
mhb大约 15 年前
What does "SC" mean in the font descriptions? (e.g., <a href="http://www.linotype.com/1436/sabon-family.html?PHPSESSID=9dfbc37a2956eb010047fd0c8e5b4640" rel="nofollow">http://www.linotype.com/1436/sabon-family.html?PHPSESSID=9df...</a>)
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dzorz大约 15 年前
I have just found out that Mac has a lot of typography options built in so you can use it even in TextEdit.<p>For example: <a href="http://tinypic.com/r/27y0uo3/5" rel="nofollow">http://tinypic.com/r/27y0uo3/5</a>
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javanix大约 15 年前
<i>Convert straight quotes to curly quotes</i><p>I agree with everything but the above.
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markbnine大约 15 年前
His follow up should be <i>user interface for lawyers</i>. This site needs better nav below the fold.
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