“The book “Typography for Lawyers,” for example, ranks Century Schoolbook on a short “A list” of fonts. Times New Roman and Courier, by contrast, made the “C list” of “questionable” fonts for lawyers.
While you may not immediately recognize the name Century Schoolbook, you’ve been reading legal opinions in this font since your first year of law school. The U.S. Supreme Court publishes its opinions in Century Schoolbook. Likewise, Rule 33(1)(B) of the Supreme Court’s Rules states that the text of all major documents, including briefs, “shall be typeset in a Century family (e.g., Century Expanded, New Century Schoolbook, or Century Schoolbook) 12-point type.””
Why would font matter in a legal document?
“briefs, “shall be typeset in a Century family (e.g., Century Expanded, New Century Schoolbook, or Century Schoolbook) 12-point type.””
“… and bold-faced lies must be formatted in boldface font.”