Typography for Lawyers

“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.