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Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation. It was intended to be elegant and legible at low screen resolutions or when printed small. The typeface is slightly italicized and features taller lowercase letters and an increased x-height for improved readability. Georgia was inspired by 19th century Scotch Roman print typefaces.

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Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter for Microsoft Corporation. It was intended to be elegant and legible at low screen resolutions or when printed small. The typeface is slightly italicized and features taller lowercase letters and an increased x-height for improved readability. Georgia was inspired by 19th century Scotch Roman print typefaces.

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Microsoft

Corporation

SIMPLE &
ELEGANT

MATTHEW
CARTE
Georgia is a serif typeface. Designed in 1993 by British type designer Matthew
Carter for Microsoft Corporation and released in the year 1996. Carter's most
used fonts are the classic web fonts Verdana and Georgia and the Windows
interface font Tahoma, as well as other designs including Bell Centennial,
Miller and Galliard. The type -face Georgia was intended to be serif type that
would appear elegant and legible when viewed on a low resolution screen or
printed small. The typeface was inspired by Scotch Roman designs for print
typeface of the 19th century. The typeface's name referred to a tabloid headline
"Alien heads found in Georgia".

Georgia has strokes that are both thick common on a typeface designed for
and thin, switching back and forth display use or the greater sharpness stem
between the two. It is slightly italic possible in print offering outstanding
ascender downward height of the
looking, but not quite as slanted. The legibility and readability. In Georgia,
slope ascenders
lower case letters in typeface are a bit the uppercase characters are
taller than some other fonts i.e., the lightened, the x-height is increased,
x - height
typeface Georgia features a larger x- and the ascenders rise above the cap
height, open counters, high contrast height, and the numerals, often cut
between the regular and bold weights, with a high degree of stress, have been
baseline serifs
ample letter spacing, and character evened out and made slightly non-
vertical
designs that help distinguish aligning - a characteristic that imparts axis
commonly confused letterforms. The a flavor of individuality to any page set
thin strokes are thicker than would be in Georgia.

regular bold italic italic bold


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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_(typeface) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Carter | https://www.fonts.com/font/microsoft-corporation/georgia/story


sources | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Roman | https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/georgia |https://designroast.org/online-guides/font-series/georgia

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