Lucida Grande

Infobox font
name = Lucida Grande
familyname = Lucida


style = Sans-Serif
classifications = Humanist
creator = Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
foundry = Bigelow & Holmes
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creationdate = 2000
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variations = Lucida, Lucida Sans, and Lucida Sans Unicode
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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.

cripts 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

ee also

*Lucida Sans Unicode
*List of fonts in Mac OS X
*Myriad (typeface)
*List of typefaces
*Unicode fonts
*Calibri font