My earlier example was inspired by a lawyer I met who had actually set his letterhead in a font called Stencil:
What clientele was he targeting? Army-surplus stores? He explained that he wanted something distinctive.
Distinctive is fine; goofy is not. Novelty fonts, weird fonts, outline fonts, shadow fonts—these have no place in any document created by a lawyer. Save it for your next career as a designer of breakfast-cereal boxes.
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What do you think about Comic Sans? To me it’s too goofy for lawyers, but my client insists on using it in certain internal documents. Thankfully, those documents are privileged and will never see the light of day in court, but still…
D’oh. Just read your diatribe against Comic Sans on the next page. I guess my question is, how can clients be persuaded to adopt some typography discipline?
They can’t. The customer is always right, remember?
People insist on using Comic Sans?
Can’t you just show them how unprofessional the use of Comic Sans is?
“Distinctive is fine; goofy is not.”
Hilarious.
“… these have no place in any document created by a lawyer. Save it for your next career as a designer of breakfast-cereal boxes.”
I for one found this hilarious.
That is the font used in the opening to the 1980s television show, the A-Team.
Having been in the Navy, I find it very funny that a lawyer would choose to use such a typeface. The military rarely uses typefaces other than the preset standards such as Helvetica.
Nice catch on the A-Team!! Cheezy as all get out, but you gotta love it!!
Here’s another one… Mail Call with, I think his name is R Lee Ermy.
I had to take an 31 page law school exam written entirely in Comic Sans. I hate that font with a passion.
Nice effort Matthew. It’s about education… The will we can’t do anything about.
Cheers