The Garamond font has been around for centuries. The original typeface was created in the 1500s by French engraver Claude Garamond. It is described as an "old-style serif" font, inspired by Roman ...

John Elwood, a partner with the law firm Arnold & Porter, tweeted that Garamond is a popular trick used to “shave serval pages off a brief.” He said on a phone call that federal filing rules ...

Word nerds be warned – when filing briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, don’t type in the centuries-old Garamond font.

Garamond is more compact than most fonts. For most appellate filings, its use will shave several pages off a brief. For that reason, it's long been a last resort for page-limited filings.

A serif is a delicate little point (aka flare or terminating flourish) at the end of a letter stroke. In the image above, ...

The U.S. government could save up to $370 million a year by switching fonts, from Times New Roman to the thriftier Garamond according to 14-year-old high school student Suvir Mirchandani.