Lucida Grande

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Typeface Lucida Grande
Category Sans-Serif
Classifications Humanist
Designer(s) Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
Foundry Bigelow & Holmes
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, as well as in Safari on Windows.

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:

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