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Email fonts
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:28 pm
by tlsguy2020
Does anyone have an opinion on email fonts? Is it weird to use anything other than Calibri? Slow Friday and I received an email from opposing counsel in Garamond Size 13. Sort of blew me away and now I've fallen down a rabbit hole on whether email fonts say anything in any way about the sender.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 2:55 pm
by Anonymous User
In my experience across a few different appellate practice settings, a disproportionate amount of smart appellate lawyers change their default sans serif emails fonts to a serif font. I consider myself just as smart an appellate lawyer, but I keep my default sans serif email font as my one little act of rebellion.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 3:33 pm
by TigerIsBack
Only material deviation I've seen is a senior partner I used to work for had his default to Times New Roman, and always black font, even in replies (instead of default blue), which I guess could be helpful if you're copying/pasting into docs from emails, or he just liked TNR, idk I never asked.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Fri Jan 27, 2023 4:53 pm
by Giro423
Some of the workers in the county government offices in my city are completely out of control and will use decorative fonts, in pink, and with salutations like βwarm regards.β
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 8:50 am
by Antetrust
This thread is fascinating LOL
. Those out-of-control lawyers with their size 13 font and warm regards hahaha
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 10:16 am
by basketofbread
One of my law school clinic professors (amazing lawyer who I respect immensely) signed her emails βTruly Yoursβ which always tickled me.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 12:39 pm
by Anonymous User
I know a very experienced appellate lawyer who writes every single email he sends out only after hitting bold. The entire email is written in bold.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2023 1:26 pm
by Anonymous User
In my experience, people who change their fonts to the Century family take themselves very seriously and have a high opinion of themselves, and people who increase their font size to 14+ are generally elderly. (Anonymous because many of my partners do one or both of these things.)
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 2:07 am
by Anonymous User
I was opposite a guy who used like 16 or 18 point font. Maybe he had bad vision idk.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 8:16 am
by jamestaylorrecordsas
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Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:08 pm
by parkslope
I'm surprised by the number of lawyers who don't change their default font from Calibri, a generally ugly and unserious font.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 7:37 pm
by Anonymous User
parkslope wrote: βSun Jan 29, 2023 7:08 pm
I'm surprised by the number of lawyers who
don't change their default font from Calibri, a generally ugly and unserious font.
I have noticed the fancier/stuffier firms (Cravath, etc.) tend to have the plainest fonts and most unadorned email signatures.
IMO there *is* something undeniably classy about the studied indifference of default Calibri or a plain-text signature β it says, βwe donβt need splashy graphics to impress or persuade, we stand by the clarity of our writing and the reputation of our firm alone.β In a way, I think the same is true of the simpler websites (e.g. Wachtell) versus the the fussier ones (e.g. Weil).
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Sun Jan 29, 2023 10:13 pm
by jamestaylorrecordsas
Jobs intuitively knew to expand his creativity muscle when he invested his time into a calligraphy class at Reed. In his 2005 commencement address at Stanford, he spoke about his calligraphy class, saying,
"I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating."
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:22 pm
by parkslope
Anonymous User wrote: βSun Jan 29, 2023 7:37 pm
parkslope wrote: βSun Jan 29, 2023 7:08 pm
I'm surprised by the number of lawyers who
don't change their default font from Calibri, a generally ugly and unserious font.
I have noticed the fancier/stuffier firms (Cravath, etc.) tend to have the plainest fonts and most unadorned email signatures.
IMO there *is* something undeniably classy about the studied indifference of default Calibri or a plain-text signature β it says, βwe donβt need splashy graphics to impress or persuade, we stand by the clarity of our writing and the reputation of our firm alone.β In a way, I think the same is true of the simpler websites (e.g. Wachtell) versus the the fussier ones (e.g. Weil).
Totally. People put a lot of junk into their e-mail signatures (images, social networking links, etc.) that are annoying. But Times New Roman is more conservative (and better-looking) than Calibri.
Re: Email fonts
Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2023 12:04 am
by Anonymous User
TNR is the better font for a legal document, calibri is the better font for things you read on your phone like an email. Neither are great fonts. If you want a nice font go for like Georgia. But then you probably look too fancy, so leave that type of thing for website design or business cards.