Commercial · Serif · Microsoft Corporation
Georgia
Georgia is a licensed font from Microsoft Corporation: Complete family of 4 fonts: $129.00 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 4 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. Georgia is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Matthew Carter
- Styles
- 4
- Classification
- Serif
- Price
- Complete family of 4 fonts: $129.00 USD (Individual Styles from $49.00 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Matthew Carter's screen serif for Microsoft, sold on MyFonts in a four-style version with a WGL character set covering Latin, Greek and Cyrillic for the EU languages.
Free alternatives to Georgia
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. Georgia is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Gelasio webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Gelasio.
metric-compatible
Its page states it is metrics compatible with Georgia in Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic; a French-transitional design rather than a copy.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Merriweather webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Merriweather.
commonly substituted
A screen text serif with a very large x-height and sturdy serifs; the same on-screen brief as Georgia, slightly condensed.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The PT Serif webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not PT Serif.
same classification
A transitional text serif with open forms; similar sturdiness on screen, narrower.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Lora webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Lora.
commonly substituted
A moderate-contrast text serif with calligraphic roots, optimised for screen; softer than Georgia.
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