Topic
Typography
34 published works
Technology and AI
"We need to stop advocating Helvetica as the best typeface."
By Greg Storey
Aasawari Kulkarni, an AICAD fellow at Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, writes in TYPE01 magazine: Helvetica in all its glory has more than served its life’s purpose and even…
Other
Thirteen ways of looking at a typeface.
By Greg Storey
Suddenly I could use any typeface I wanted, and I went nuts. On one of my first projects, I used 37 different fonts on 16 pages. My wife, who had…
Other
Inside the font factory: meet the man who shapes the world’s letters.
By Greg Storey
I love Erik Spiekermann just as much as the next designer, but it’s nice to have this article from the Financial Times featuring a different design/typography legend, Bruno Maag. He…
Explorations with Information and Technology
Make Legal Information Look Nice, the Font Edition
By David Whelan
I have made some terrible choices over the past twenty+ years working on the web and with information. Questionable fonts. Weird logos and images. You live and you learn. I…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Butterick’s Typography for Lawyers is Now Available for Free Online
In the appellate advocacy world, the holidays have arrived early.As Ruth Anne Robbins put it in her classic 2004 article Painting with Print, "[p]ersuasion includes looking good on paper." So,…
Appellate Advocacy Blog
Thinking Thursdays: Two-spacers, please stop being so selfish
Ruth Anne Robbins, Distinguished Clinical Professor of Law, Rutgers Law SchoolThe big news this week in field of law and typography[1] was a Washington Post story about a study that…
North Carolina Appellate Practice Blog
Typography in Appellate Briefs: Courier Fans, It Is Time to Make the Switch of the Century
By Beth Scherer
Less than a year ago, we blogged on a CLE presentation by Court of Appeals Judge Rich Dietz on typography in appellate briefs. At the time, Judge Dietz urged appellate practitioners to abandon…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
Check your typography
Pamela Keller of the University of Kansas recently reminded lawyers to pay attention to typography. In an article in the June Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, Keller stresses the…
Legal Writing Prof Blog
calling all font geeks
If you enjoy learning about fonts and typography, here is a video for you.hat tip: Karen Mika(spl)
Legal Writing Prof Blog
fontastic
For all you fans of fonts and typography out there, here's a review of new book on point. The book review itself has some really interesting links to tell you…