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I came across a rather nice little site today. I'm always gasping speechless at the basic disasters of design that happen on leaflets, posters and even web sites.
Even the most basic typographical rules are completely ignored. I know, I know, I'm an arrogant person who is a design snob. Yes well guilty as charged but there agree some basic ideas in typography that will make your page, be it on the web or on paper look more professional and easier to read. That's what you want, right? One basic concept is that as we read from left to right in this part of the world you should really line up the world with a left hand margin so that people reading it will be able to find the net line easily. Yes that's right. No more centring every bit of text on the page.
What can you do? I believe it was Oscar Wilde who said that there is "no point in arguing about matters of taste".
Point out that double spaces after a full stop is just wrong, centring all your text and using six different typefaces in one document is ghastly and your friends and associates may well just stop talking to you.
Matthew Butterick manages to explain every common mistake clearly and with humour. Just refer your friends to this site, they may just listen to a lawyer. They may even thank you for it.
http://www.typographyforlawyers.com
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