Subject to a few exceptions, you should also avoid Times New Roman. On the Mac, that includes Arial, Courier, Helvetica, Palatino, Skia, and Verdana. On Windows, that includes Arial, Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Comic Sans, Constantia, Courier, Georgia, Helvetica, any flavor of Lucida, Palatino, Trebuchet, and Verdana. (I’ve corresponded briefly with Matthew.) On this page of the site, I read the following:Īvoid using the core operating system fonts in printed documents.
I had occasion to revisit Typography for Lawyers, a handsome and informative site maintained by Matthew Butterick, a solo litigator based in Los Angeles. (Click here for a pdf sample of Calibri.) For more on this change, see chapter 15 of MSCD and this blog post (and its 31 comments).įlash forward to now, or rather yesterday.
Calibri has been designated the default typeface for body text in Office 2007, and the Word 2007 default font for body text is 11-point Calibri. In December 2007 I underwent a Damascene conversion and switched typefaces-for purposes of contracts and pretty much everything else-to Calibri, one of a new suite of Microsoft typefaces.
