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| Category | Serif |
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| Designer(s) | Matthew Carter |
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| Date created | 1993 |
| Date released | 1996 |
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Georgia is a serif typeface designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter and hinted by Thomas Rickner for Microsoft. It was intended as a serif typeface that would appear elegant but legible when printed small or on low-resolution screens. The typeface is inspired by Scotch Roman designs of the 19th century and was based on designs for a print typeface on which Carter was working when contacted by Microsoft; this would be released under the name Miller the following year.[1] The typeface's name referred to a tabloid headline, "Alien heads found in Georgia."[2]
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- ^ "Typeface Descriptions & Histories". Archived from the original on 24 April 2015.