The Georgia typeface is similar to Times New Roman, another revival of transitional serif designs, but with many subtle differences: Georgia is larger than Times at the same point size, and has a much larger x-height at the same actual size. That is a bigger jump in weight than is conventional in print series.” Carter noted that, “Verdana and Georgia… were all about binary bitmaps: every pixel was on or off, black or white… The bold versions of Verdana and Georgia are bolder than most bolds, because on the screen, at the time we were doing this in the mid-1990s, if the stem wanted to be thicker than one pixel, it could only go to two pixels. Georgia’s bold is also unusually bold, almost black. Its figure (numeral) designs are lower-case or text figures, designed to blend into continuous text this was at the time a rare feature in computer fonts. Georgia typefaces are popular and often used, particularly for printing body text and books.Īs a transitional serif design, Georgia shows a number of traditional features of ‘rational’ serif typefaces from around the early 19th century, such as alternating thick and thin strokes, ball terminals, a vertical axis and an italic taking inspiration from calligraphy. The x-height (height of lower-case letters) is low, especially at larger sizes, making the capitals large relative to the lower case, while the top serifs on the ascenders of letters like ‘d’ have a downward slope and rise subtly above the cap height. Some distinctive characteristics in georgia’s letters are the small eye of the ‘e’ and the bowl of the a, which has a sharp hook upwards at top left. Georgia is perfect for branding projects, home-ware designs, product packaging, magazine headers - or simply as a stylish text overlay to any background image. Its a very versatile font that works great in large and small sizes. A b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z Georgia is a clean, fancy serif font with additional vector elements and multilingual support.
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