Lawyers correspondence Type advise
First of all: Happy 2008!
This year I would love to hear your critique and advise about the typeface to use for correspondence and legal papers. I’m a lawyer at a small firm (my own), and the last 2 years a passionate typophile.
As for years, we’re using Times New Roman. No wonder I would like to change that soon.
I truely like the look and feel of the H&FJ fonts like Gotham and Mercury, but for long text it doesn’t seem right somehow.
I love Scala too, but untill now I must admit that Minion Pro has the best look on print. And Minion is again well used and hardly exiting....
Does any of you have good suggestions? Thanks!
2.Jan.2008 7.39am
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2.Jan.2008 8.00am
Hi
Century Old Style or Century Schoolbook have some interesting serifs and are very readable. For something more radical Try Souvenir a slab serif font.
Phil Givens
2.Jan.2008 8.38am
I like where Mr. Givens is going. In your case, this is fairly dry matter, and anything elegant or bookish wouldn’t be appropriate. Century Old Style is plenty invisible, generally attractive in an average sort of way, and for those reasons, readable. All that and classically handsome! (Average handsome.) Schoolbook is a little too childish for a law firm...it was designed for school books and made famous by Dr. Seuss. If you’re looking to present a more casual image, you might want to look at Comic Sans.
And back to seriously...this Arno Pro that MyFonts is featuring is fresh and clean!
2.Jan.2008 12.03pm
You can’t go wrong with Minion. Neither flashy or dull, it was designed for modern printing techniques (unlike Times) and comes with several weights, has Old Style figures if you want to use them. Dante (Monotype) would be excellent too. Adobe has it packaged up nicely in OTF at a better price.
2.Jan.2008 2.01pm
Ken Adams provides some interesting advice on related topics - http://adamsdrafting.com/system/
2.Jan.2008 2.24pm
Besides Minion, Georgia looks surprisingly good in print. Hoefler Text is also good. And Galliard. You can still find many legal texts in Century/School Book.
And since legalese is not considered to be meant to be understood, by all means do not limit yourself to the legible — try sans too.
2.Jan.2008 2.34pm
I found Arno Pro works well too :) Also I like Dante and Minion.
Plantin is nice, may not look modern enough though. Otherwise Utopia (perhaps x-height too large?) or Stone Serif ?
2.Jan.2008 4.23pm
Thanks sofar for your comments and good links!
A special made font would be the ’bomb’ I guess. Anyone have any idea about the costs of such project?
3.Jan.2008 3.55pm
One more I forgot: Baskerville would strike a chord with some of your correspondents.
8.Jan.2008 3.48pm
Got stuck at Minion and now have a wild idea: what about a modern sans serif for long text?
Please name your favorites!
8.Jan.2008 3.48pm
Got stuck at Minion and now have a wild idea: what about a modern sans serif for long text?
Please name your favorites!
8.Jan.2008 8.25pm
I’d use Minion (or some other serif font) for the long text and the sans for headings, if I were going to mix in a sans at all.