This is Georgia Bold Italic.
One of the best looking, simple web pages I've
ever seen used nothing but Georgia, set in concise,
short lines of text, with lots of white space all
around it. Can't remember where that page was,
but it made a good impression on me and confirmed
my fondness for the Georgia typeface.
Georgia was designed by Matthew Carter, a smart,
graceful, amicable elder statesman of the font world.
He's just a great guy, completely likeable. The font
was hinted by Tom Rickner, who is nice enough to
have devoted his whole life to hinting typefaces,
a very specialized, complicated skill that not many
other people have taken the time to master.
I like Georgia for its big ol' serifs, which are always
clear, even on low-rez computer screens. Georgia
is also really BIG, like it's cousin Verdana, with a
mighty x-height that also adds to legibility. Right
in between Times and Clarendon, but clearly not
either, Georgia is a distinctly modern serif rooted
in classic traditions that make web page text read
like a book, in a good way. Love it.
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