Verdana and Georgia
By Deane Barker on April 20, 2006
Georgia & Verdana – typefaces for the screen: Here’s a really (too) detailed examination and interview regarding the two font faces that Microsoft designed specifically for the screen: Verdana and Georgia. It includes this interesting tidbit about how they were named.
Verdana a sans serif named for the verdant Seattle area and Georgia, a brilliant serif named after a tabloid headline about alien heads found in Georgia, which was then used to set test headlines.
I knew Verdana was designed for the screen, specifically. But I didn’t know this is where Georgia came from too.
There are few interesting articles about Segoe UI (the new user interface font for Office 12 and Vista) at Office User Interface Blog. A good place to start is http://blogs.msdn.com/jensenh/archive/2005/11/28/497441.aspx
There should be an International Georgia Day. Imagine a world where every font would be Georgia! Yah! ^^