Georgia, on our minds...and on our screens

For those of you out there interested in typography, here is an interesting article with which I just caught up (published last month) on the growing popularity of the Georgia face. You're reading it now, and it is the typeface that has been used in this blog from day one.

Alice Rawsthorn of the International Herald Tribune, relates how this very new font (as typefaces go) came to predominate in such places as Canadian Magazines and the New York Times.

"Whatever its age, Georgia is an elegant, quietly idiosyncratic typeface, which is a pleasure to read on screen," she says. "even though it is not designed in the minimalist style of lettering that we associate with the Internet. Instead it is one of the serif fonts with decorative squiggles at the ends of the characters that we are accustomed to seeing in print. Georgia's growing popularity is partly the product of typographic fashion, but also reflects deeper changes in our relationship with the screen as our primary source of information."

The font can be downloaded, free, here. And if you want to read a bit more about its origin, you can Wiki it here.