US Court of Appeals in DC 'discourages' lawyers from filing using Garamond font
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Word nerds be warned – when filing briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, don’t type in the centuries-old Garamond font.
"Briefs that use Garamond as the typeface can be more difficult to read and the use of this typeface is discouraged," he wrote in a notice released Tuesday. Court rules require that typeface be at least 14-point and that it must include serifs, the little wings in some fonts. (Times New Roman is a serif font, for example, while Arial is not.) But now under the new guidance aimed at making reading documents easier, the court clerk is encouraging briefs to be filed in Century and Times New Roman – and explicitly not Garamond.More Related News