Matthew Butterick

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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.
  • 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
  • Alix, a typewriter font

Self-released

Butterick's serif font Equity
  • 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.

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