Courier

Use a reader-friendly typeface. Typeface means a style of type and is called a font in reference to computers and word-processing programs. Most typewriters used Courier typeface, and you can probably find that typeface on your word-processing program. I am amazed at how often I see recently drafted estate planning documents using Courier typeface, as if the lawyer wanted the client to believe that there was still a typing pool in the back room tapping out wills and trust on manual typewriters. Whatever font you choose, don’t use Courier. It’s ugly. It marks you as a dinosaur. Courier is a mono-spaced font, meaning that every letter, from the skinny “l” to the wide “m” takes up the same space from side to side. A mono-spaced font is harder to read than a proportionally spaced font in which each letter takes up space proportional to the natural width of the letter. Typewriters had to use mono-spaced fonts like Courier, but a computer using a modern word-processing program offers a choice of proportionally, spaced fonts.