The emphasis was on speed, not retention. It was not, however, designed for intensive reading-for example, reviewing lengthy briefs. Another benefit of this closely spaced font was that it left ample space for advertisements. The letters in Times New Roman are narrow, closely spaced, and designed to force readers’ eyes across the page as quickly as possible. It was designed for a specific purpose: to allow speed-skimming the newspaper’s articles. Times New Roman was developed in the 1920s by a British newspaper, The Times of London. This is Times New Roman, the font that most North Carolina lawyers use for their legal writing. The second part briefly describes how fonts within the Century family increase readability and retention-features that can give lawyers a competitive edge. The first part discusses the current font norms for North Carolina lawyers, and why the fonts favored by those norms are not optimal for legal writing. We know what you’re thinking: Why should I care about fonts? The authors of this article-an appellate judge and a few litigators-would like to answer this question in two parts. By Judge Richard Dietz, Drew Erteschik, Clark Tew, J.M.
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