An Online Guide to Typography For Lawyers

Matthew But­t­er­ick, typographer-​turned-​lawyer, has devel­oped a great little site explain­ing in an incred­i­bly straight for­ward manor why type is impor­tant to people work­ing in the legal system. It seems a little crazy at first, but two pages into his excel­lent brief, I was sold. Lawyers need to learn about good type.

Typog­ra­phy for Lawyers is pretty cool on a few levels. What I’m most inter­ested in though, is the uncon­ven­tional layout. When a type guy takes the per­spec­tive of a legal guy, you get some­thing bril­liant that no art stu­dent could come up with on their own. I’ve rarely been to a site that bal­ances nav­i­ga­tion, read­abil­ity and layout so well. In a copy­cat online design world, this really is an orig­i­nal idea.

» thanks to Design Observer for the tip