Typography for lawyers

A lot of interesting information about how the fonts we choose and the formatting decisions we make can aid or hinder our attempts to convey information and persuade others.

“Reading Arial is like trying to have dinner on a tippy restaurant table.” To someone like me, who can barely distinguish serif from sans, that seems pretentious. But that's exactly what you want in a book like this—a perfectionist, not a dabbler. Butterick is a perfectionist, and we have much to learn from his book.

It's not just fonts. Actually, very little of it is. It's typography: the whole enchilada, the full effect of a printed page. Broad aspects, fine details. Layout, margins, spacing, all those things I knew existed but never really cared much about. I've changed my mind. I'm just taking my first steps, learning, discovering, and changing habits.

I'm not a lawyer. I just have to write occasionally: technical, personal, stuff that needs to communicate. Good typography may help my readers, and it's worth investing some time in.