Picture it: after three long and grueling years of law school, you finally graduate, pass the bar, and become a licensed attorney. You are ecstatic, proud, and eager to learn and advocate for your clients. You begin your new job and set up your office, leaving a beautiful spot on the wall to hang your degree for your clients to marvel at. The day finally comes: your framed degree arrives in the mail. You open it, so excited to send pictures to your family and hang it on your wall. You lift the diploma in anticipation… only to have your heart shattered, stomach sinking, because your name is written in Lucidia Calligraphy font. 

Your coworkers degrees are written in professional fonts, like Olde English or some sort of Times or Serif font that is classic and timeless. Yours looks like it was designed on Pages in middle school during the 2000s. If you hang this on your wall, you are worried clients will think you are a joke or that it is a fake degree, because certainly no professional school accredited by the ABA would use Lucidia Calligraphy! 

Ashamed, you place the framed diploma back in the box and tuck it away. You consider going to Staples to photoshop a different font. But then you decide to do what lawyers do best: advocate!

For a school as prestigious as Vanderbilt, with such a stellar nationwide reputation, you would expect better. Lucidia Calligraphy is a mockery of this fine legal institution and the bright legal minds it curates. It is akin to using Comic Sans: a joke. Please change the font on our diplomas! We deserve class!