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by chefandy 714 days ago
As an aside, Microsoft hired Carter to design a high-quality serif typeface that was easy to render on under-powered PCs. When you're designing type, having a standard set of words you can use to compare revisions is important; for this task, they made up a tabloid headline "Alien Heads Found in Georgia," and that's where the typeface "Georgia" comes from!

(When I was in design school, I heard that it was "Pickup Truck of Severed Heads Found in Georgia" but I haven't found a single citation that supports it. I imagine the person that told me was mistaken.)