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In other words, you shouldn’t use Garamond in the D.C. If there’s a local handbook out there, find it and follow it. So this serves as a reminder to good practitioners everywhere: don’t rely only on the local rules. Circuit’s discouragement of Garamond appears only in the court’s recent notice, and in its updated Handbook of Practice.

Circuit’s local rules say nothing further.

The federal rule (FRAP 32(a)(5)) requires only a legible 14-point serif font, and the D.C. Circuit did not amend its local rules to require-or disallow-any particular font.

And now that the flare-up has died down, it seems like a good time to provide a quick overview of font requirements and recommendations across the country. This sparked a flare of discussion on #AppellateTwitter, about preferred fonts and about brief writing in general. Circuit issued a notice on “Preferred Typefaces for Briefs,” in which the court explicitly “discourage the use of Garamond” because it “appears smaller” and is less “legible” than fonts like Century and Times New Roman.

Use of book antiqua font make use of in print