{"id":4884,"date":"2011-02-04T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-03T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-04T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T00:51:47","slug":"typography-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/typography-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Typography for Lawyers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a lawyer. <em>Typography for Lawyers<\/em> isn&#8217;t just for lawyers. It&#8217;s for anyone who cares about how text looks in print or on the Web.<\/p>\n<p>The author, Matthew Butterick, is a lawyer, and also a professional typographer who has created several original commercial fonts.<\/p>\n<p>Butterick&#8217;s main point is that appearance matters for anyone making or reading a written argument. Most any written communication is an argument of some sort. Most legal communication is unnecessarily ugly. So, I would add, is most everyday business communication.<\/p>\n<p>In a clear, coherent, and personable way, Butterick guides the reader through seemingly mundane matters like font, font size, paragraph format, line spacing, em dashes, en dashes, and the rest. He makes a case for what looks good, what doesn&#8217;t, and why it matters. He supplies plenty of visual examples.<\/p>\n<p>While some material will interest only attorneys, those parts don&#8217;t break the flow for the general reader. Anyone who uses a computer is also a user of typography, even if few people take that fact seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Other top-notch typography books are available. One is the previously reviewed classic <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/elements-of-typ\/\"><em>Elements of Typographic Style<\/em><\/a>. But like most, <em>Elements<\/em> is aimed mainly at serious students of typography and typography pros. Butterick&#8217;s book assumes no knowledge of the subject and focuses on the what to do, and how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typefaces for justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}