http://iht.com/articles/2006/07/09/features/dlede10.php On the origin and revival of Matthew Carter’s font Georgia. 18:46
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… Read Serif vs. Sans-Serif at 456 Berea Street. ReadQuirky serifs aside, Georgia fonts win on Webat International Herald Tribune. Below are two clipped screenshots of John 15 in YouVersion. The first is set in Arial, followed by the same text rendered in Georgia. Sans-serif (Arial) - click for full image …
Advertising Agency/Design Studio (carsonparkdesign.wordpress.com):
… have been largely ignorant of them owing, in part, to the lack of affordable extended font families in the early years of the desktop revolution. Matthew Carter designed Georgia in 1996 for Microsoft’s Web Core Fonts program, and it’s nowall over the internet. Why? Because it was included (wisely) in the system software for both Macs and PCs. Web designers use system fonts for all live type (type which has not been converted into a graphic) so that default fonts (think Courier) will not stand in as …
Advertising Agency/Design Studio (blog.carsonparkdesign.com):
… have been largely ignorant of them owing, in part, to the lack of affordable extended font families in the early years of the desktop revolution. Matthew Carter designed Georgia in 1996 for Microsoft’s Web Core Fonts program, and it’s nowall over the internet. Why? Because it was included (wisely) in the system software for both Macs and PCs. Web designers use system fonts for all live type (type which has not been converted into a graphic) so that default fonts (think Courier) will not stand in as …
Lian Chang | Commentary | 2008 (lianchang.cc):
… inobtrusively into your retinas. What you might not have known is that Georgia, along with its sans serif sibling Verdana, were created at Microsoft back in 1996 to be screen-friendly typefaces for the nascent web-browsing masses. Read the article here. …
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