Georgia On My Mind
Ahoy, font whores: Matthew Carter, the British type designer, was interviewed today on the NPR program The Connection.
In addition to designing many excellent typefaces like Miller, Bell Centennial and ITC Galliard, Carter has worked to create fonts specially optimized for computer use. The fruits of his work with Microsoft are Verdana and Georgia, every web designer’s best friends. (In fact, if you’re reading this on my site, you’re probably reading Georgia right now). Apple also hired Carter to several tailor fonts for OS X.
Side note: I’m pleased to rediscover Dick Gordon, the host of The Connection. I greatly admired Gordon’s work doing radio documentaries when he was with CBC’s This Morning. It’s funny to listen to old radio news, but then sometimes you have to wonder if the problems went away or if people just forgot.
Previously: Man Bites Dog; Pigs Fly
Subsequently: Soda-pop
Comments
I love Georgia - I specced it as our corporate standard serif typeface because it looks great everywhere and of course it comes installed automatically on both Macs and Windows. I just wish they’d release a Pro version - more ligatures and lining figures would be nice, maybe a Display version (lighter strokes for large sizes) and maybe a set of real small caps.
— aj | Sep. 13, 2003 — 11 AM