Typeface Lift Underway for Georgia, Verdana

Georgia and Verdana are getting a face lift. Commissioned by Microsoft in the mid-1990s as ideal for on-screen display, the typeface families were designed by Matthew Carter and hinted for screen legibility by Tom Rickner of Ascender Corporation. Now Carter, Ascender, and Font Bureau are working with Microsoft on a project to expand and enhance Georgia (once described by Microsoft’s Simon Earnshaw as “effectively the more generous cousin of Tahoma”) and Verdana (conceived as “a serif alternative to Times”) for new applications, both on the screen and on the page.