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The bold caps are nearly unreadable. All caps is advocated against by many sources, like Typography for Lawyers (http://typographyforlawyers.com/all-caps.html h
by capnrefsmmat 11y ago
The bold caps are nearly unreadable. All caps is advocated against by many sources, like Typography for Lawyers (http://typographyforlawyers.com/all-caps.html http://typographyforlawyers.com/all-caps.html), which specifically calls out bold caps. Even the Mozilla Public License abandoned all-caps for conspicuous text:
http://lu.is/blog/2012/08/19/a-quick-note-on-conspicuous-text-also-known-as-all-caps/ http://lu.is/blog/2012/08/19/a-quick-note-on-conspicuous-tex...
Bryan Garner, a noted expert on legal writing (and editor of Black's Law Dictionary), agrees:
> And the worst conventions in contracts?
> Caps for contract text that is required to be “conspicuous.” The 9th Circuit has rightly noted that “lawyers who think their caps-lock keys are instant ‘make conspicuous’ buttons are deluded.”
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/4_vignettes_lead_to_a_single_moral_about_writing_better_briefs http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/4_vignettes_lead_...