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Georgia’s History Georgia’s Designer
COMPARISON ANALYSIS
Georgia & Baskerville Georgia’s Design And Analysis
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Wikipedia Washington Post
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Son of Harry Carter, Royal Designer for Industry, contemporary British type designer, trained as punchcutter by Paul Rädisch, a responsible for the Crosfield’s typographic program in early 1960s, Mergenthaler Linotype’s house designer 1965–1981. Carter co-founded Bitstream with Mike Parker Parker in 1981. In 1991 he left Bitstrea to form Carter & Cone with Cherie.
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Comparison Georgia Baskerville
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Georgia is a "Scotch Roman"—a style which originated in types sold by Scottish type foundries of Alexander Wilson and William Miller in the period of 1810–1820. According to Thomas Curson Hansard, these were cut by London-based punchcutter Richard Austin.
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TYPE FAMILY Georgia Regular
Regular typeface creates a legible and easy to read wordings.
Georgia Italic
Slanted cursive based on a stylized calligraphic handwriting form.
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Simple is Beautiful (8pt)
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Characters that are darker and heavier than normal.
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USAGE
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Georgia is mostly used in English countries’s newspapers such as The Washington Post, Guardian, Telegraph and Wall Street Journal. Since newspapers are a mix of images and text, it’s vital that the reader can easily scan over lines of text and that it remain readable. Georgia is also used in Wikipedia as a headline or also as a subject’s tittle. Also,the text size might vary based upon the size of the reader’s screen. Few products supply georia such as Window’s, Publisher, Microsoft Office, Picture It, PhotoDraw and many more.
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