Matthew Butterick
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
- Wessex (1993), transitional text serif inspired by Bulmer and Caledonia
- Herald Gothic (1993), a bevelled sans-serif
- Berlin Sans (1994, part), a flared sans-serif
- Hermes (1995), a blocky sans-serif loosely inspired by Berthold Block
- Alix, a typewriter font
Self-released
- Equity, an updating of the 1930s body text serif design Ehrhardt.[7] Features grades designed to suit different types of paper and printers, and separate small caps fonts intended for use in Word.[8]
- Concourse, loosely inspired by Dwiggins' geometric sans-serif design Metro. Features stylistic alternates and small caps.[9]
- Triplicate, a monospaced slab serif design
- Advocate, a caps-only slab and sans serif design. Reminiscent of mid-century American college sports team lettering, corporate logos and Bank Gothic. Somewhat resembles an expansion of Herald Gothic.
References
- ↑ Legal Writing Institute. "Golden Pen Award". Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Elnar, Rachel (September 29, 2013). "Matthew Butterick Gives Us Practicality". Rag Right. TypeEd. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Greenwood, Arin (May 1, 2011). "Artist-Turned-Lawyer Highlights Typographic Detail in Legal Docs". ABA Journal. American Bar Association. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- 1 2 Heller, Steven (March 17, 2010). "Typographer at Law: An Interview with Matthew Butterick". American Institute of Graphic Artistis. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Butterick, Matthew. "The economics of a web-based book: year one". Practical Typography. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Butterick, Matthew. "About Matthew Butterick". Practical Typography. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
- ↑ Porchez, Jean François. "Equity review". Typographica. Retrieved 13 July 2015.
- ↑ Butterick, Matthew. "Equity: specimen & manual" (PDF). MBType. Retrieved 7 August 2015.
- ↑ "Concourse specimen". Concoursefont.com. Matthew Butterick. Retrieved 8 April 2016.