For the frequency with which Georgia is mentioned around here, one might think we here at Actual Size World Headquarters would be fairly educated about President Mikhail Saakashvili's country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia (pop. 4.3 million), more so than just being able to rattle off some of the republic's top exports (scrap metal, wine, fruit). But this couldn't be further from truth!

Our experience with Georgia is primarily limited to using the eponymous typeface, and the main reason for that is not our love for serifs with enormous x-heights, but rather the fact that there are so few typefaces that you can safely use on the web, and Georgia is one of the nicer options.

Fortunately for people like us (and in turn, people like you, our clients, friends and countrymen), new options are emerging. Typekit is "a subscription-based service for linking to high-quality Open Type fonts from some of the worlds best type foundries." Which means web designers can use more fonts! Which is all we really like to do. (I have literally like a HUNDRED fonts on my computer. No lie.) Now there are also other options emerging, like Fontspring, which use a new format of font file to give you what you want. Options are good, right?

So, without further ado, Actual Size presents our first projects incorporating new web font technology (in this case, Typekit's service), a couple of small, brilliantly fancy sites for our friends at Shady Grove (www.eatshady.com) and Walnut Grill (www.eatwalnut.com)!