An interesting piece in the International Herald Tribune about the current fascination with the Georgia font (not familiar? hint: you’re reading Georgia right now).

A ton of blogs uses it. The new New York Times site uses it. If you sit in front of a screen for most of the day, chances are high that most of that time was spent with the font burning inobtrusively into your retinas. What you might not have known is that Georgia, along with its sans serif sibling Verdana, were created at Microsoft back in 1996 to be screen-friendly typefaces for the nascent web-browsing masses.

Read the article here.