Lucida Math Italic contains Latin characters from Lucida Serif Italic, but with smaller line spacing, and added Greek letters. Lucida Math Extension contains only mathematical symbols. Lucida Math Ī family of fonts for mathematical expressions. It contains ampersands, interrobangs, asterisms, circled Lucida Sans numerals, etc. Hinting was used to allow onscreen display.Ī family of fonts for ornament and decoration uses. x-heights are consistent between the fonts. The fonts include ligatures, but these are not needed for text, allowing use on simplistic typesetting systems. Bigelow has said in interview that the characters were designed based on hand-drawn bitmaps to see what parts of letters needed to be clear in bitmap, before creating outlines that would render as clear bitmaps. Capital letters were designed to be somewhat narrow and short in order to make all-caps acronyms blend in. The Lucida fonts have a large x-height (tall lower-case letters), open apertures and quite widely spaced letters, classic features of fonts designed for legibility in body text. Lucida is still licensed commercially through the TUG store as well through their own web store. Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office.īigelow and Holmes, together with the (now defunct) TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full set of TeX mathematical symbols, making it one of the few typefaces that provide full-featured text and mathematical typesetting within TeX. There are many variants of Lucida, including serif (Fax, Bright), sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). 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).

Lucida (pronunciation: / ˈ l uː s ɪ d ə/ ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. Typeface family designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes in 1984 Lucida

Lucida calligraphy font family