Lucida
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- Lucida is also another name for the star Alpha Monocerotis
Lucida is a family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1985.
There are many different fonts called Lucida, including scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting), serif (Fax, Bright), and sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter).
- 1 Samples
- 1.1 Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Lucida Grande, LucidaSans or just lucida
- 1.2 Lucida Sans Typewriter, LucidaSansTypewriter or lucidatypewriter
- 1.3 Lucida Console
- 1.4 Lucida Handwriting
- 1.5 Lucida Grande
- 1.6 Lucida Calligraphy
- 1.7 Lucida Blackletter
- 1.8 Lucida Fax
- 1.9 Lucida Bright or lucidabright
- 1.10 Lucida Serif
- 2 External links
Samples
The following paragraphs will appear in the typeface mentioned in the title, if it is installed on your machine. If not, a monospace font is used (except in the case of monospace fonts - Lucida Sans Typewriter, LucidaSansTypewriter, lucidatypewriter and Lucida Console - where a serif font is used instead). Note that these samples may contain characters not present in Lucida fonts, in which case unrelated fonts may be used to display these characters.
Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Lucida Grande, LucidaSans or just lucida
Lucida Sans Typewriter, LucidaSansTypewriter or lucidatypewriter
Lucida Console
Lucida Handwriting
Lucida Grande
Lucida Calligraphy
Lucida Blackletter
Lucida Fax
Lucida Bright or lucidabright
Lucida Serif
External links
- [clagnut The new typography] (blog entry with some information on variation of Lucida typeface names across systems)
- [Lucida fonts] (Ascender corporation)
- [Lucida and TeX] (TeX Users Group)
- [Lucida fonts] (Linotype corporation)
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