Lucida Grande

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Credits

Designer(s)
Charles Bigelow, Kris Holmes
Foundry(ies)
Bigelow & Holmes
Release Year
2000
Country of Origin
United States
Classification
Sans Serif, Humanist Sans
Original Format
Digital
Distributor(s)
Apple, Inc.
Tags
humanist, sans serif

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Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface included with the Mac OS X operating system. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It is currently used throughout the Mac OS X user interface, as well as in Safari on Windows.

Like the similar Microsoft Windows font Lucida Sans Unicode, it supports the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard.

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