Lucida

Font sample for the Lucida Sans Unicode font

The Lucida - font family group was 1984/85 by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes designed.

It was one of the first fonts available for DTP , can be used universally and is characterized by a clear image with sometimes classical features. The Lucida is characterized by a large x-height , which, however, limits its suitability for large paragraphs of text . Of the six Windows Vista fonts, Calibri is the one most similar to the Lucida clan.

variants

The clan includes different variants, including:

• Fonts with the same thickness ( Console and Typewriter )
• Fixed Font ( Console )
• sans serif fonts ( Console , Sans , Sans Unicode , Sans Typewriter and Grande )
• Serif fonts ( Bright , Fax and Typewriter )
• Special fonts ( black letter , calligraphy and handwriting )

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  Lucida Sans

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  Lucida Sans Typewriter

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  Lucida Console

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  Lucida handwriting

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  Lucida Grande

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  Lucida Calligraphy

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  Lucida Blackletter

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  Lucida Fax

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  Lucida Bright

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  Lucida Serif

literature

• Bigelow, Charles; Holmes, Kris, The design of Lucida: an integrated family of types for electronic literacy. In: Text Processing and Document Manipulation. Boarding school Conf., Proceedings, April 14-16 , 1986 , JC van Vliet (ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1986, pp. 1–17, ISBN 0-521-32592-7 (in English)