Matthew Butterick

Butterick speaking at a Berlin conference, 2012

Matthew Butterick is an American typographer, lawyer and writer. He received the 2012 Golden Pen Award from the Legal Writing Institute for his book Typography for Lawyers,[1] which started as a website in 2008[2] based on his experience as a practicing attorney.[3] He has worked for The Font Bureau and founded his own website design company, Atomic Vision (purchased by Red Hat in 1999).[4] Expanding Typography for Lawyers, Butterick published Practical Typography as a "web-based book" in July 2013.[5]

Butterick graduated with a BA in visual and environmental studies from Harvard University.[4] He later earned a JD at the University of California, Los Angeles and was admitted to the State Bar of California in 2007.[6]

Typefaces

Butterick’s typeface designs include:

For Font Bureau

A specimen image of Butterick's family Hermes FB, created by FontShop.

Self-released

Butterick's serif font Equity

References

  1. Legal Writing Institute. "Golden Pen Award". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  2. Elnar, Rachel (September 29, 2013). "Matthew Butterick Gives Us Practicality". Rag Right. TypeEd. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  3. Greenwood, Arin (May 1, 2011). "Artist-Turned-Lawyer Highlights Typographic Detail in Legal Docs". ABA Journal. American Bar Association. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  4. 1 2 Heller, Steven (March 17, 2010). "Typographer at Law: An Interview with Matthew Butterick". American Institute of Graphic Artistis. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  5. Butterick, Matthew. "The economics of a web-based book: year one". Practical Typography. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  6. Butterick, Matthew. "About Matthew Butterick". Practical Typography. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  7. Porchez, Jean François. "Equity review". Typographica. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
  8. Butterick, Matthew. "Equity: specimen & manual" (PDF). MBType. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
  9. "Concourse specimen". Concoursefont.com. Matthew Butterick. Retrieved 8 April 2016.

External links

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