Georgia Fonts

The Georgia font family was designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Ascender’s own, Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation. The Georgia font was created as a serif compliment to the sans serif font, Verdana. The Georgia font name is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.

Georgia Fonts

Georgia Fonts Packages

Georgia Font Family

The Georgia font family has many comparisons to Times New Roman, though Georgia is noticeably larger than Times at the same point size. Times New Roman's characters are slightly narrower, having a more vertical axis. When one counterbalances for the size differences and ignores the differences in compression and spacing, the remaining differences are slight.

Overall, Georgia font serif characteristics are slightly wider and have blunter, flatter ends, but at first glance many letterforms are difficult for a novice to distinguish between Georgia and Times New Roman.

On closer inspection, many influences from Clarendon-style typefaces can be seen, especially in b, r, j, and c (uppercase and lowercase).[citation needed] Figures (numerals) are an exception: Georgia uses text (old-style) figures whereas Times New Roman has lining figures.

The Georgia font family is a transitional serif typeface that was created in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Tom Rickner for the Microsoft Corporation, as the serif compliment to the first Microsoft sans serif screen font, the Verdana font. The original version of the Georgia font was released on November 1, 1996 as part of the Core fonts for the Web collection. Later, it was bundled with Internet Explorer 4.0 supplemental font pack.

The Georgia font is designed for clarity on a computer monitor even at small sizes, partially due to a relatively large x-height. The typeface is named after a tabloid headline titled "Alien heads found in Georgia."  The Georgia font name is a registered trademark of the Microsoft Corporation.