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That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.
by huntertwo 8y ago
That’s really funny. Don’t think I’ve ever seen Calibri on any legal document now that I think of it.
- thewizardofaus 8y agoThey should have used Comic sans. Released 1994.
- xbmcuser 8y agoThere a saying in Urdu (Pakistani Language) Nakal ke liye Bhi Akal Chaye i.e Even to cheat you need brains.
- ccozan 8y agoI guess Courier would be the standart choice, right? At least most of the official and semi official papers I've seen were typed in a variant of it.
- Freak_NL 8y agoA large part of that seems due to inertia; these kind of documents have always been typeset in a monospaced font, so there is bound to be a good reason for it — or so the mindset goes. That reason usually boils down to 'because that's what it looked with typewriters before we switched to desktop publishing'. In the US Courier stuck, in other countries it was Times New Roman with bad default choices for leading, font size, and line width. Legal and government typography for Latin alphabet based scripts seems to mostly be substandard everywhere.
- cm2187 8y agoJudicial experts in France love to make reports with fancy fonts.
- et2o 8y agoMy quick Google was unsuccessful. Care to provide an example?
- cm2187 8y agoThat's what I found on google [1]. I am not in that profession but the TV show "Faites entrer l'accuse" often shows extracts of medical or psychological reports, and they often use a font of that kind, sort of intermediary between hand-writing and machine type. Certainly not the default font of any text editor I am aware of. [1] http://pedophilie-castres.over-blog.com/article-piece-n-3-quand-un-expert-oriente-les-accusations-vers-la-mere-96043535.html http://pedophilie-castres.over-blog.com/article-piece-n-3-qu...
- et2o 8y agoThank you! Very interesting