Why Century School Book Is Better for Your Brief Than Times New Roman
Students, would you like to make it easier for your professors to retain the information presented in your typed assignments, papers, briefs, and tests?
Professors, would like to retain more of the information that your students are presenting to you in their typed assignments, papers, briefs, and tests?
Then please read what the Seventh Circuit has to say about its “Requirements and Suggestions for Typography in Briefs and Other Papers.”
For starters, “[t]ypographic decisions should be made for a purpose. The Times of London chose the typeface Times New Roman to serve an audience looking for a quick read. Lawyers don’t want their audience to read fast and throw the document away; they want to maximize retention.”
Students don’t want their audience (professors) to read fast and throw the document away either. Maybe the fallback format requirements of “15 pages, double-spaced, Times New Roman, one inch margins” shouldn’t be the fallback? What else does the Seventh Circuit have to say about our old friend Times New Roman?