I’m a big theatre person, so I like to see as many shows as I can. This past spring, I saw a friend in a regional production of a new play called The Gods of Comedy. This is a picture of the show’s program, which was distributed to audience members before the show. By using WhatTheFont, I identified the typeface used for the red type logo as Georgia. This serif typeface was created by Matthew Carter in 1993, and it was created to look formal and be easy to read for online use. Some things that differentiate Georgia from other plain serif typefaces are the height and visual weight of the characters. They are slightly taller in regard to their x-height and cap height, and the stems and stresses are a little bit thicker as well. Carter purposely made these decisions to improve the typeface’s readability because the internet was still new at the time, and fonts needed to be legible at low resolutions.
You can use WhatTheFont to discover more typefaces at myfonts.com/WhatTheFont.
Information on Georgia from https://designroast.org/font-series-georgia/.
Typography Fall 19 