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Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson*
* © Derek H. Kiernan-Johnson 2010. Legal Writing Professor, University of Colorado School of Law. An early draft of this article was presented at a faculty works-in-progress colloquium on July 9, 2009, at the University of Colorado Law School; many thanks to my colleagues at Colorado for their responses and suggestions. Special thanks to Pierre Schlag for moderating that colloquium. Many thanks as well to the organizers of and participants at the Applied Legal Storytelling Conference, Chapter Two: Once Upon a Legal Story, held at Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, where this paper was presented on July 24, 2009. Very special thanks to Ruth Anne Robbins for her many thoughtful comments throughout the progression of this article and, of course, for writing the ground-breaking 2004 J. ALWD article from whose title this article takes inspiration: Painting with Print: Incorporating Concepts of Typographic and Layout Design into the Text of Legal Writing Documents, 2 J. ALWD 108 (2004). Special thanks to Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook for his thoughts on typography and the writing process, as well as for all of his work on behalf of typography in legal texts. Thanks also to the many type designers, typesetters, and sundry typophiles who shared their thoughts with the author, most especially the type designers and educators Gerard Unger and Erik Spiekermann, who, with their very different styles but equal mastery of type design, this author considers, respectively, typography’s Vincent Van Gogh and J.S. Bach. Finally, many many thanks to the author’s wife Eileen and son Ronan, who tolerate and even accept with grace the author’s frequent and intense bouts of typomania.