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Georgia
Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Thomas Rickner for Microsoft.
About Georgia
Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Thomas Rickner for Microsoft. It was intended as a serif typeface that would appear elegant but legible when printed small or on low-resolution screens. The typeface is inspired by Scotch Roman designs of the 19th century and was based on designs for a print typeface on which Carter was working when contacted by Microsoft; this would be released under the name Miller the following year. The typeface's name referred to a tabloid headline, Alien heads found in Georgia.
From the Wikipedia article “Georgia (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Georgia in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q246141 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).