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While I was perusing through the net for examples of good website designs, I ran across the usual glut of verdana/arial sites, but there was a surprising showing for Georgia, the new cool, hip, current, web 2.0, serif font designed for the screen.

Being extremely bored with the sans-serif “trend” that started in the nineties and is showing no signs of slowing down, I decided to pick up Georgia for my new site theme. An added plus is that according to the combined font survey Georgia can be found on approximately 91% of Macs nad 84% of PCs out there, not too far below the ubiquitous Arial. This made me feel confident setting my css as follows:

font-size: 11pt;
line-height: 16pt;
font-family: georgia, serif;

At worst, this means my site might default to Monaco or Times for the non-Georgia systems out there, which, in my opinion, is not much more unreadable than Georgia.

My pitch: Need a good-looking, easy-to-read, font that makes your site look hip, yet classy? Don’t want to feel oh-so-web 1.0 with Verdana? Give Georgia a try. At least The New York Times seems to agree.