Playing with Georgia

6 comments

• kristianp 1 hour ago
  Headings like the following:

      4. Keep the measure honest
      The knobs that matter
  

  Very AI, and irritating.
• jihadjihad 12 minutes ago
  OT, but something I didn’t know is that if you go to Google, and type in “$FOO font”, it will render the entire results page in that font.

  Of course I had to try Comic Sans, then Georgia, and I was only a little disappointed when it didn’t work for Wingdings.
• muglug 1 hour ago
  Counterpoint: stretching fonts is commonly regarded as a typographic sin, and a condensed form of Georgia exists: https://carterandcone.com/font/georgia/
• montag 21 minutes ago
  I was on board until “fake a medium weight”… faux bold is one of my pet peeves. How hard would it be to turn Georgia into a true variable axis font?
• Lammy 1 hour ago
  > Georgia is a timeless typeface that comes free on almost every computer.

  Just not Windows 3.1–98/NT, Classic Mac OS, or Free Software operating systems whose users have not installed the relevant package and accepted its license :)

  https://web.archive.org/web/19990421072704/http://www.micros...

  https://www.freshports.org/x11-fonts/webfonts/
• Gualdrapo 1 hour ago
  I never liked it that much. Yes, it came with WinXP and used it in my physics reports when I had no idea about LaTeX trying to emulate the Computer Modern look of them, but when I learned some LaTeX found out you could use a font that became one my favorite serif fonts ever, Cambria. I still use it from time to time with ConTeXt.