{"id":1429,"date":"2021-03-19T12:50:36","date_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:50:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/?p=1429"},"modified":"2021-03-19T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T19:50:36","slug":"garamond-font-discouraged-by-u-s-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/garamond-font-discouraged-by-u-s-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Garamond Font Discouraged by U.S. Court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the importance of using an appropriate typeface. This week courts in Washington, D.C. have officially <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cadc.uscourts.gov\/internet\/home.nsf\/Content\/Announcement+-+Notice+-+Preferred+Typefaces+for+Briefs\/%24FILE\/noticePreferredTypefacesForBriefs.pdf\">placed Garamond on the naughty list<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-style:italic; margin-left:20px; margin-right:20px; margin-bottom:15px;\">the court has determined that certain typefaces, such as Century and Times New Roman, are more legible than others, particularly Garamond, which appears smaller than the other two typefaces<\/div>\n<p>This is absolutely true. Garamond has a distinct aesthetic that can be nice to look at, but it is smaller and always felt a bit cramped to me with its tight kerning.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20000510100924\/http:\/\/www.nisus.com\/\">very old version of the Nisus website<\/a> actually briefly used Garamond for certain text elements. That was over 20 years ago! But it was probably always a poor font choice for a webpage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all know the importance of using an appropriate typeface. This week courts in Washington, D.C. have officially placed Garamond on the naughty list: the court has determined that certain&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1429"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1437,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1429\/revisions\/1437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nisus.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}