Lucida
Credits
- Designer(s)
- Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes
- Foundry(ies)
- Bigelow & Holmes
- Release Year
- 1985
- Country of Origin
- United States
Background
There are many variants called Lucida, including scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting), serif (Fax, Bright), and sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter).
P.S: Lucida typefaces have a big x-height in order to pack more pixels into the more important portions of text. This makes them appear larger than many other fonts (such as Times Roman or Baskerville) when composed at the same point size. The big x-height is an advantage for texts read mostly on screens, such as on-line documents and user-interfaces. (Lucida Grande, for example, is the standard user-interface font in Macintosh OS X, where it provides a high degree of legibility at screen resolutions.)
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