Legal Typography Checker — Analyze Legal Document Formatting
Check legal documents for typography consistency including capitalization, heading hierarchy, spacing, and forbidden characters. Perfect for notaries, lawyers, and legal professionals.
Legal Typography Checker
Analyze legal documents for typography consistency and formatting errors instantly. Designed for notaries, lawyers, legal advisors, and corporate legal professionals, this tool ensures all your official filings, deeds, contracts, and regulations adhere to strict professional typography standards before submission.
What It Checks
- Capitalization — Ensures structural headings (e.g. CHAPTER, ARTICLE) are strictly capitalized in ALL CAPS as required in formal legal drafting.
- Heading Hierarchy — Verifies sequential structural flow (e.g., CHAPTER → ARTICLE → SECTION) and alerts on heading hierarchy jumps.
- Spacing Audit — Scans and alerts on double spaces between words or punctuation.
- Non-Standard Characters — Flags forbidden unicode characters such as en-dash, em-dash, or curly quotes, suggesting standard ASCII replacements.
- Blank Lines — Detects excessive consecutive blank lines based on the selected document type layout parameters.
- Structural Completeness — Identifies empty sections or missing closing statements in deeds.
Supported Document Types
Select from 4 distinct document templates for specialized parsing and rule validation:
| Document Type | Standard Structure | Audit Parameters |
|---|---|---|
| Notary Deed | CHAPTER > ARTICLE | Checks for official opening formulas and missing notary closing statements. |
| Regulation / Law | CHAPTER > ARTICLE > SECTION | Validates strict structural hierarchies and nested lists. |
| Contract Agreement | ARTICLE > SECTION | Monitors consistent naming, blank spaces, and duplicate numbering across clauses. |
| Official Letter | Flexible structure | Maintains standard ASCII spacing, basic headings, and clear formatting lines. |
Scoring & Quality Scale
The auditor computes a quality score from 0 to 100 based on issue severity:
| Score Range | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 80 – 100 | Good | The document has stellar formatting with no severe issues. Ready for use. |
| 60 – 79 | Needs Review | A few minor layout errors or spacing inconsistencies found. Review recommended. |
| 0 – 59 | Action Required | Multiple heading, capitalization, or formatting violations detected. Correction advised. |
How to Audit Documents
- Select Document Type: Choose the document category using the selector pills (e.g. Notary Deed).
- Input Text: Paste your legal text into the editor. Use the "Load sample" button for a quick demonstration.
- Analyze: The checker parses headings and analyzes document spacing dynamically in real time.
- Review the Report: Scroll down to view the computed quality score and check the audit logs for errors and warning lines.
FAQs
What does the Legal Typography Checker do?
This tool analyzes legal documents for typography and formatting consistency issues. It checks for proper capitalization of headings, consistent heading hierarchy, double spaces, forbidden characters, and document structure.
What types of legal documents are supported?
The tool is designed for various legal documents including notary deeds, regulations/laws, contracts, and official letters.
What issues does it detect?
It detects: non-CAPS headings, heading hierarchy jumps, double spaces, excessive blank lines, duplicate numbering, forbidden characters (en-dash, em-dash, ellipsis), missing closing statements, and empty sections.
What is the scoring system?
The tool gives a score from 0-100 based on the number and severity of issues found. 80+ is good, 60-80 needs review, below 60 has many issues that should be fixed.
Can I copy the analysis report?
Yes, the tool generates a text report that can be copied for inclusion in document review notes or to share with document authors.