Did you know that the 7th Circuit Court has a style guide (h/t Sam Glover at the Lawyerist)? Apparently lawyers have been using sans-sarif fonts as body text, and the 7th Circuit wasn't going to have that. Two questions: (1) Is this a perfect example of judicial activism (first abortion, then school prayer, and now Helvetica!)? (2) Since when did lawyers become graphic designers?
This is Ich Bin Ein Oberliner, snowed in and pondering the typographic tyranny of the courts.
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