The Lucida family of fonts from Bigelow & Holmes is highly regarded for its legibility and extensive range of type styles. Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes developed Lucida as one of the first harmonized typefaces available with an extensive range of styles.
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What do you use Lucida for?
The Lucida font family includes such an extensive range of styles that it is very versatile. Its best usage cannot be pinned down to a specific type of application.
The history of Lucida
Lucida was designed by the Bigelow & Holmes design studio in 1985. Charles Bigelow is an American type historian, professor and designer. Kris Holmes coauthored Chicago, Geneva, Monaco and New York, the original Macintosh city fonts. Both designers wanted to create a font family that gave nice output on laser printers and displays, was available in a wide range of variants and weights, and included many mathematical symbols. Over the years they extended the font family which now includes serif, sans-serif, blackletter, calligraphic, mono-spaced, handwritten, casual and fax-optimized variants.
Trivia
Microsoft licensed the icons and symbols from Lucida for their Wingdings font.
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