Lucida
Sign in to saveLucida (pronunciation: ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand).
Key facts
- Typeface.image
- Lucida Serif sample.svg
- Typeface.name
- Lucida
- Typeface.style
- Sans-serif, serif, and more
- Typeface.releasedate
- 1984
- Typeface.creator
- Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes
- Typeface.license
- Commercial
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- Lucida Blackletter sample.svg
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- Commons category
- Lucida
- inception
- 1985-00-00
Sources (1)
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22 sectionsContents
- Key features
- Lucida Serif
- Lucida Bright
- Lucida Fax
- Lucida Typewriter Serif
- Lucida Sans
- Lucida Grande
- Lucida Sans Unicode
- Lucida Sans Typewriter
- Lucida Console
- Lucida Arrows
- Lucida Blackletter
- Lucida Calligraphy
- Lucida Casual
- Lucida Handwriting
- Lucida Icons
- Lucida Math
- Lucida OpenType
- Usages
- See also
- References
- External links
Lucida (pronunciation: ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand).
There are many variants of Lucida, including serif (Fax, Bright), sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office.