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Typeface, size, weight and emphasis, drawn from your approved examples.
House Styles · explained
What a house style is, and why a template alone isn't enough.
A house style is the way a firm's documents look: the fonts, the heading hierarchy, the clause numbering, the spacing, the way footnotes are set. Most firms hold it in a Word template and in the habits of the people who type.
This page explains what a house style is made of, why a template cannot apply itself to a scanned document, and how LexForge learns one from your own examples.
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The parts
Six things a house style decides.
Heading hierarchy
Titles, headings and subheadings mapped to the styles your firm uses.
Clause numbering
Numbering and indentation copied from the structure of your documents.
Paragraph spacing
Line spacing, margins and gaps made consistent across the rebuilt draft.
Footnote text
Note text kept and styled to match your examples, returned as editable text in the body rather than as Word's linked footnotes.
Review signals
Uncertain words flagged for a person to decide instead of being guessed.
Why a template doesn't fix a scan
A template holds the styles. A scan has nothing to attach them to.
A Word template is a set of named styles waiting for structure: it can style a heading only once something is a heading. A scanned document arrives as a picture of a page, and a basic converter hands back positioned boxes with no headings, no numbering levels and no paragraph styles for the template to map onto.
Applying the template then means rebuilding that structure by hand first, which is the retyping-shaped job the template was supposed to remove. That is the gap LexForge is built for: it rebuilds the structure from the scan, then applies your style to it. How a scan becomes an editable Word draft.
How LexForge learns yours
Add your reference styles once. Update them when your firm's style changes.
Upload your firm's style examples
Add your Word templates or finished documents.
LexForge builds a clean style set
Headings, numbering, fonts, footnote text and layout are made consistent.
Upload old scans
Get editable Word back as a clean, consistently styled draft.
Formatting changes; the wording stays matched to the source. LexForge checks the finished draft against the text read from your file and marks uncertain words for review. The check cannot prove that a poor scan was read correctly, so review the finished document before relying on it.
House Styles are included as a 300-page sample in the free pilot and on the Solo, Practice and Firm plans, and are not required for a standard conversion. The House Styles page has the full picture; Pricing has the plans.
See one applied
The sample lease, in a serif house style.
Your first document
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Approved pilot users start with 300 one-time pages and one house-style template. No card required.
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