Typography for Lawyers

Typography for Lawyers

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What is typography?
Why is typography important?
Why is typography important for lawyers?
The consequences of bad typography: a historic example
Prependix: books on legal writing
Basic typography

Straight quotes and curly quotes
One space between sentences
Underlining
Bold and italic
Centered text
All-caps text
Hyphens and dashes
Semicolons and colons
? and !
Courier and monospaced fonts
Goofy fonts
Operating system fonts
Times New Roman
Font recommendations

Intermediate typography

Paragraph marks and section marks
Trademark and copyright symbols
Ellipses
Apostrophes
How to pick a font
Justified text
Hyphenation
Kerning
Letterspacing
Line spacing
Font size
Line length and page margins
Sharing draft documents

Advanced typography

Nonbreaking spaces
Keep lines together and keep with next paragraph
Condensed vs. squished fonts
Small caps

Appendix: court rules regarding fonts
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