Schools using Georgia

Designed in 1996 by Matthew Carter, Georgia is the serif companion to Verdana, Microsoft's workhorse of a sans-serif screen font. Georgia specifically addresses the challenges of typography displayed on a screen. When rendered at small point sizes, type on screen can become very difficult to read. Georgia tackles this problem by using wide and open counters, the white spaces in between the shapes of letters. When these spaces are too tight, the shapes become indistinguishable from one another. Georgia is very similar to Times New Roman, but takes out some of the fine details present in Times New Roman to make it suitable for screen - Georgia's serifs are somewhat flatter and blunter, for instance. Although nothing seems too odd about the name of the font, it has a somewhat curious and random derivation: it was jokingly named after a tabloid headline that read 'Alien heads found in Georgia.'

1623 Schools using Georgia

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Georgia

School Site Evaluation (Georgia)

Of the 41 fonts used for evaluation, the fourteenth most common font schools use on their websites is Georgia. Georgia is used on websites by 1,623 schools around the US.

Visual Preferences

Color

Nearly 60.6% of schools that use Georgia as the primary font on their websites use the color white as the primary color on the website, including Liberty University, Walden University and George Washington University. The other primary website colors that are most commonly used by schools that use Georgia as the primary font on their website include grey (13%) and yellow (12.5%).


Social Presence

Exactly 149 schools that use Georgia as the primary font on their websites have Facebook pages. These schools tend to update their Facebook status, on average, 3 times a week. And they each have an average of 3,146 "likes". Of the schools that use the Georgia font, the following have the greatest number of Facebook "likes":

  1. Liberty University: 53,273 likes
  2. Georgetown University: 26,919 likes
  3. Ferris State University: 17,076 likes

And 94 schools that use Georgia as the primary font on their websites have YouTube channels. These schools have an average YouTube subscriber base of 90 subscribers, and an average of 64 posted videos. Of these schools, the following have the greatest number of YouTube subscribers:

  1. Dartmouth College: 2,685 subscribers
  2. Liberty University: 920 subscribers
  3. Embry Riddle Aeronautical University - Daytona Beach: 691 subscribers

Web Metrics

The average Google Page Rank for schools using Georgia as the primary font on their websites is 5. Interestingly enough, the average Google Page Rank for schools that do not use Georgia on their websites is 5.

The schools with the highest Google Page Rank, that also use Georgia on their websites are:

  1. Georgetown University: 8 Google Page Rank
  2. Dartmouth College: 8 Google Page Rank
  3. College of the Holy Cross: 7 Google Page Rank
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