We hope that Bernhard Modern has made its last appearance in an appellate brief," the appeals court sniffed in a June 3 decision by Judge Frank Easterbrook.
The 7th Circuit urged all lawyers to read and follow the advice in the circuit's Practitioner's Handbook for Appeals, which advises lawyers to use typefaces suitable for books and to choose the most legible typeface available to them.
Any face with the word 'book' in its name is likely to be good for legal work," the 7th Circuit said, citing examples such as Century Schoolbook and Bookman Old Style.
Lawyer Jason R. Epstein, who represented the losing appellant, "did not heed this advice," Easterbrook wrote. "His brief is set in Bernhard Modern, a display face suited to movie posters and used in the title sequence of The Twilight Zone TV show.
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