in the ballpark...

http://new.myfonts.com/fonts/bitstream/news-701/italic/characters.html

Similar and by the same designer, but with the wrong italic ‘g’: Miller. See also Miller Daily, Headline and Banner.

Chronicle, from H&FJ, has a similar italic:

http://typography.com/fonts/font_styles.php?productLineID=100032

(BTW, these requests belong in the Type ID forum.)

What is it about Georgia that doesn't work for you?

Cheers, si

Well when we approached Matthew Carter to design a serif he said he was working on a Scotch Roman. Then he showed us what became Georgia. So Miller was what he came out with next so they are related. Or from the same inspiration.

Thank you all for suggestions and info.

Marcox, sorry about that, I gave it some thought but made the wrong decission.

Sii, Georgia doesn't work for me because when you use Georgia on a website, different browsers display different versions of Georgia and most of the browsers doesn't display the right version with the beautiful italic f for example. Also some browsers (ie f.e.) doesn't render Georgia that good, very pixly. Chrome on the other hand renders it nicely I think.
We have tried to force browsers/computers to use the right version but it's not 100% and the rendering is still a problem.
So I would like to try Typekit with a simmilar font and see how that works.

Vinceconnare, interesting, when was this?

Tjena Petter. It sounds like the issues you’re experiencing are most likely just the product of font rendering with different engines. Browsers and OS’s vary wildly and the only way to really get the same result across all platforms is using images. The font’s appearance is also effected by something called hints, clues that help the rendering engine turn curves into pixels. You’ll probably never again come across a typeface as well hinted as Georgia: Even with Windows’s latest rendering most of the fonts on Typekit doesn’t hold up, and if you happen to use older versions I’m not sure if there is anything readable left. Tom Rickner and Matthew Carter spent years perfecting Georgia for this task. My point is: If Georgia’s rendering is your problem, Typekit is not going to offer any better solutions.

Tom Rickner and Matthew Carter spent years perfecting Georgia for this task.

The Microsoft leads on Tahoma, Georgia etc where Dave Ohara, Matt Rowe, Virginia Howlett and Vincent Connare not necessarily in that order.

Ah. Wikipedia is wrong! Forgive me.

@frode
You’ll probably never again come across a typeface as well hinted as Georgia: Even with Windows’s latest rendering most of the fonts on Typekit doesn’t hold up, and if you happen to use older versions I’m not sure if there is anything readable left.

By and large, I agree with you - to the extent that screen rendering is ahhh.. fitful and uneven, to say the least.
But: people are using them anyway and that's the lesson.
Many people just don't care, obviously. Or they are working on Macs and don't test on Windows. (Which is not to say I like Mac rendering - it will depend on the font but I mostly don't.) There's a lesson there, too.

It's just a kneejerk reaction to the same old, same old. And if there's a few warts, so what? Or that seems to be the attitude, at least.

INFG - It's Not F-cking Georgia.

All of which doesn't solve plojel's problem. But I didn't realize at first that he was looking for a web font to replace Georgia.

@plojel
I don't think you're going to find a Georgia knock-off with a web font license that you're going to find acceptable. It depends what your priorities are.

rich

Georgia is available via Ascender's web font service...

http://www.fontslive.com/store/search.aspx?q=georgia

Cheers, Si

Hey,

I have a similar question, I wrote an entire thesis in Georgia only to realize that it does't look that good when rendered in a PDF, is there a way of make it look better. For the moment I render my PDF in Apple Pages software.