Typography for lawyers / Matthew Butterick ; [foreward by Bryan A. Garner].

Typography for lawyers / Matthew Butterick ; [foreward by Bryan A. Garner].

2nd edition.

Houston, TX : O'Connor's/Jones McClure, 2015.

240 pages : illustrations ; 22 x 18 cm

"Originally released to great acclaim in 2010, Typography for Lawyers was the first guide to the essentials of typography aimed specifically at lawyers. Author Matthew Butterick, an attorney and Harvard-trained typographer, dispelled the myth that legal documents are incompatible with excellent typography. Butterick explained how to get professional results with the tools you already have quickly and easily. Revised and updated ... the second edition includes: new topics such as email, footnotes, alternate figures, and OpenType features; avice for presentations, contracts, grids of numbers, and court opinions; technical tips covering the newest versions of Word and WordPerfect for Windows and OS X; new font recommendations, including two that are free; new essays on the font copyrights, screen-reading considerations, and typographic disputes that have reached the courts; a refreshed layout, featuring type features designed by the author."--from Amazon.com website.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-233) and index (back cover).

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Typography for lawyers : essential tools for polished & persuasive documents.

Typography for lawyers, 2nd.

KF250 .B88 2015

English

9781598392623 (paperback)
159839262X (paperback)