Last week, media outlets from CNN to the Economic Times reported on a story that pretty much everyone could feel good about: a 14-year-old font nerd in Pittsburgh crunched some numbers and figured out ...

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. Court clerk Mark J. Langer told lawyers this ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, acting like a picky high school English teacher, announced an amendment to its handbook Tuesday: Briefs will only be accepted if they’re ...

The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

Creative output of any kind depends upon a steady stream of tiny self-delusions. A different font helps me believe in my own words. By R.E. Hawley I cannot start any document — a novel, a letter, an ...

In what can only be described as an impressive piece of research, a Pittsburgh schoolboy has calculated that the US state and federal governments could save getting on for $400m (£240m) a year by ...

A 14-year-old student thinks he has calculated a way to save the U.S. government more than $100 million per year, and it’s as simple as changing typefaces. The answer is to require all printed ...

The appeals court issued a notice titled "Preferred Typefaces for Briefs" that essentially declared—but did not mandate—Garamond a dead letter. Maybe it was a string of obscure acronyms appearing in a ...

Let me bury the lede for a moment to tell you a story. Long ago, in a magical realm called Academe, professors grew wise to the old student tricks of futzing with both margins and text spacing to make ...