Georgia
Georgia
Matthew Carter, 1996
Serif · A blog, a newspaper website, or long-form reading on screen.
The screen serif, drawn alongside Verdana for the same problem: serifs are thin, and thin things vanish on a low-resolution screen. Carter solved it with a large x-height and sturdy, blunt serifs. Its numerals are old-style — they sit below the baseline and vary in height, like lowercase letters — which is unusual for a screen face and is the quickest way to identify it.
The facts
- Designed by
- Matthew Carter
- Released
- 1996
- Classification
- Serif
- What it signals now
- A blog, a newspaper website, or long-form reading on screen.
Where you have seen it
- The New York Times online for years
- Amazon
- Countless blogs
Other typefaces from the 1990s
| Typeface | Year | Designer | What it signals |
|---|---|---|---|
| FF Meta | 1991 | Erik Spiekermann | The 1990s doing corporate identity properly. Warm, readable, slightly quirky. |
| Comic Sans | 1994 | Vincent Connare | A hospital notice, a village hall poster, or a joke about typography. |
| Verdana | 1996 | Matthew Carter | A website designed between 1998 and 2008. |
This page describes the typeface rather than showing it. Displaying a specimen requires a licensed font file and almost none of these may be redistributed, so the descriptions name the letters to look at instead.
Common questions
- Who designed Georgia?
- Matthew Carter, in 1996.
- What is Georgia used for?
- A blog, a newspaper website, or long-form reading on screen. You will have seen it on The New York Times online for years, Amazon, Countless blogs.
Related pages
- Typefaces from the 1990s 4 here
- Garamond Claude Garamond, 1530
- Caslon William Caslon, 1722
- Baskerville John Baskerville, 1757
- Didot Firmin Didot, 1784
- Bodoni Giambattista Bodoni, 1798
- Times New Roman Stanley Morison and Victor Lardent, 1932
- Trajan Carol Twombly, 1989
Sources
- Official vendor product documentation — At One Place