Lucida Grande
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Category | Sans-serif |
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Classification | Humanist |
Designer(s) | Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes |
Foundry | Bigelow & Holmes |
Date released | November 16, 1999 |
Lucida Grande is a
The typeface looks very similar to
Three
In June, 2014, Bigelow & Holmes released four weights: Light, Normal, Bold, and Black, in three styles: Roman, Italic, and Oblique. B&H also released Narrow versions of those twelve weight/styles, plus four Lucida Grande Monospaced fonts in Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic styles, with narrow versions of the four monospaced weight/styles.[3]
Lucida Grande fonts directly from Bigelow & Holmes contain the pan-European WGL character set.
Scripts and Unicode ranges
Lucida Grande contains 2,826 Unicode-encoded glyphs (2,245 characters) in version 5.0d8e1 (Revision 1.002).
Language support by version:
3.7d8 | 5.0d8e1 revision 1.002[4] | 6.0d10e1 revision 6.004 (OSX 10.5)[5] | 6.1d4e1 (OSX 10.6) | |
Afrikaans | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Albanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Azerbaijani | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Basque | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Belarusian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Bulgarian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Catalan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Cornish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Croatian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Czech | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Danish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
English | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Esperanto | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Estonian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Faroese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Finnish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
French | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Galician | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
German | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Greek | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hausa | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Hawaiian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hebrew | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hungarian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Icelandic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Indonesian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Irish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kalaallisut | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Kazakh | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Latvian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Lithuanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Macedonian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Malay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Maltese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Manx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Norwegian Bokmål | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Norwegian Nynorsk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Oromo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Romanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Serbian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Slovak | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Slovenian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Somali | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Swahili | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Swedish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Thai | No | Yes | Yes | No |
Turkish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Ukrainian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Uzbek | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Vietnamese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Welsh | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Similarity to Lucida Sans/Lucida Sans Unicode
Almost all glyphs in Lucida Grande (and Lucida Grande Bold) look identical to their matching counterparts in Lucida Sans (and Lucida Sans Demibold) as well as Lucida Sans Unicode, with the very few exceptions of:
- The digit "1" with a serif on the baseline;
- The en-dashwidth;
- The commercial at "@" with a larger and more upright letter and circle.
These slightly different characters look clearer in small font sizes in display and user interface (especially graphical and web-based) uses.
Note: If you have installed Lucida Grande font on Windows or Linux you will see followings above.
Uses
Apart from
Although it was designed primarily as a screen font, Lucida Grande/Sans also appears frequently in print, due at least in part to the ubiquity of Mac platform (and thus the typeface) in professional-grade desktop publishing. The
See also
References
- ^ "Apple changes OS X system font for the first time in Yosemite". 2 June 2014.
- ^ "Fonts". Apple Developer. Apple Inc. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
- ^ A Brief History of Lucida Grande
- ^ "Mac OS X 10.4:Fonts list". Apple Computers. 6 November 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ "Mac OS X 10.5:Fonts list". Apple Computers. 7 November 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2012.
- ^ i, Mac &. "OS X 10.10: Hack stellt alte Schriftart wieder her". Mac & i (in German). Retrieved 7 September 2016.