If lawyers can single-space, so can everyone else

David has alerted me to this splendid site, Typography for Lawyers. Often, one feels that legal documents must have some sort of immunity from decent typography, but clearly they don't. When I got to the page about double-spaces between sentences, I started cheering:



God, this drives me nuts. So many client documents come with these yawning gaps between the sentences, as if someone's hung the paper up in a firing range. If I'm editing some client copy, half the time my first job is a Search & Replace, substituting single spaces for doubles.

I just can't believe people don't look at what they've written and go, 'Urgh.'