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  • About this website
  • How to use this website
  • What is typography?
  • Why is typography important?
  • The consequences of bad typography: a historic example
  • Why is typography important for lawyers?
  • Prependix: books on legal writing
  • Basic typography
    1. Straight quotes and curly quotes
    2. One space between sentences
    3. Underlining
    4. Bold and italic
    5. Centered text
    6. All-caps text
    7. Hyphens and dashes
    8. Semicolons and colons
    9. ? and !
    10. Courier and monospaced fonts
    11. Goofy fonts
    12. Operating system fonts
    13. Times New Roman
    14. Font recommendations
  • Intermediate typography
    1. Paragraph marks and section marks
    2. Trademark and copyright symbols
    3. Ellipses
    4. Apostrophes
    5. How to pick a font
    6. Justified text
    7. Hyphenation
    8. Kerning
    9. Letterspacing
    10. Line spacing
    11. Font size
    12. Line length and page margins
  • Advanced typography
    1. Nonbreaking spaces
    2. Keep lines together and keep with next paragraph
    3. Condensed vs. squished fonts
    4. Small caps
  • Appendix: court rules regarding fonts