Lucida Grande
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| Typeface | Lucida Grande |
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| Category | Sans-Serif |
| Classifications | Humanist |
| Designer(s) | Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes |
| Commissioned by | Adobe Systems |
| Date created | 2000 |
| Variations | Lucida, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode |
Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface included with the Mac OS X operating system. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It is currently used throughout the Mac OS X user interface.
Like the similar Microsoft Windows font Lucida Sans Unicode, it supports the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard.
[edit] Scripts and Unicode ranges
Lucida Grande contains 2,826 Unicode-encoded glyphs (2,245 Characters) in version 5.0d8e1 (Revision 1.002), covering the following scripts:
- Latin (English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish)
- Greek
- Cyrillic
- Arabic
- Hebrew
- Thai
