You can make something beautiful and well-designed without color at all. Black and white can be beautiful. The same cannot be said of typography.
And Georgia is actually very readable at small font sizes. It was specifically designed for use as a text font on a computer screen. It's a fine choice for body text.
In fact, Georgia is a no-brainer kind of choice if your site is text-heavy. It needs to be opened up a bit -- the line-height should be around 1.4em -- but it makes the right word shapes (most "expert" reading happens at higher pattern-recognition levels than letters) without sacrificing clarity at the level of letter shapes and letter-spacing (as, say, a Garamond or Palatino might). Serifs make a huge difference in readability. They just got a bad on-screen reputation from implementations like Times New Roman on Windows (which is more of a weak encryption scheme than a legitimate typographic decision).
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You can make something beautiful and well-designed without color at all. Black and white can be beautiful. The same cannot be said of typography.
And Georgia is actually very readable at small font sizes. It was specifically designed for use as a text font on a computer screen. It's a fine choice for body text.
In fact, Georgia is a no-brainer kind of choice if your site is text-heavy. It needs to be opened up a bit -- the line-height should be around 1.4em -- but it makes the right word shapes (most "expert" reading happens at higher pattern-recognition levels than letters) without sacrificing clarity at the level of letter shapes and letter-spacing (as, say, a Garamond or Palatino might). Serifs make a huge difference in readability. They just got a bad on-screen reputation from implementations like Times New Roman on Windows (which is more of a weak encryption scheme than a legitimate typographic decision).