Lucida
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'''Lucida''' is an extended family of related [[typeface]]s designed by [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]] in [[1985]].
There are many variants called Lucida, including scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting), [[serif]] (Fax, Bright), and [[sans-serif]] (Sans, Sans Unicode, [[Lucida_Grande|Grande]], Sans Typewriter).
Bigelow & 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.
==Lucida Arrows==
It is a family of fonts containing arrows.
==Lucida Blackletter==
Released in 1992, it is a family of cursive blackletter fonts.
==Lucida Bright==
Based on Lucida Serif, it features more contrasted strokes and serifs.
==Lucida Calligraphy==
It is a script font family developed from [[Chancery]] cursive.
==Lucida Casual==
Released in 1994, it is a casual font similar to Lucida Handwriting, but without connecting strokes.
==Lucida Console==
It is a variant of Lucida Sans Typewriter with smaller line spacing, added WGL4 character set.
==Lucida Fax==
Released in 1992, it is a slab serif font family derived from Lucida, designed for telefaxing.
==Lucida Grande==
It is a version of Lucida Sans with expanded character sets. It supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai scripts.
==Lucida Handwriting==
It is a script font family that imitates handwriting.
==Lucida Icons==
It is a family of fonts for ornament and decoration uses. It contains ampersands, interrobangs, circled Lucida Sans numerals.<ref>Lucida Sans descriptions</ref>
==Lucida Math==
It is a family of fonts for mathematical expressions. Lucida Math Extension contains only mathematical symbols. Lucida Math Italic contains Latin characters from Lucida Serif Italic, but with smaller line spacing, and added Greek letters. Lucida Math contains mathematical symbols, and blackletter (from Lucida Blackletter) and script letters in (from Lucida Calligraphy Italic) Letterlike Symbols region.
In addition to the above fonts, mathmatical fonts for Lucida Bright, Lucida Sans, Lucida Sans Mono were also developed, as well as Lucida Math One, Lucida Math Two, Lucida Math Three, which contain only mathematical symbols.
==Lucida Sans==
{{Infobox font
| name = Lucida Sans
| image = [[Image:Lucida Sans font.svg|240px|Lucida Sans]]
| style = Various
| prop = Proportional
| date = [[1985]]
| creator = [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]]<br />[[Kris Holmes]]
| foundry = Bigelow & Holmes
| sample = See [[#Samples|samples]]
|}}
It is a family of sans-serif fonts complementing Lucida Serif, designed in 1985.
===Lucida Sans Typewriter===
Also called Lucida Typewriter Sans, It is a sans-serif monospaced font family, designed for typewriters.
===Lucida Sans Unicode===
Based on Lucida Sans Regular, it added characters in Arrows, Block Elements, Box Drawing, Combining Diacritical Marks, Control Pictures, Currency Symbols, Cyrillic, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Greek and Coptic, Hebrew, IPA Extensions, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Letterlike Symbols, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, Spacing Modifier Letters, Superscripts and Subscripts regions.
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==Lucida Serif==
It is the original Lucida font designed in 1985, featuring a thickened serif. It was simply called Lucida when it was first released.
==Lucida Stars==
==Lucida Typewriter Serif==
Also called Lucida Typewriter, it is a slab serif monospaced version of Lucida Fax, but with wider serifs. The letters are wider than Lucida Sans Typewriter.
==Samples==
<gallery>
image:Lucida Sans sample.svg|Lucida Sans
Image:Lucida Sans Typewriter sample.svg|Lucida Sans Typewriter
Image:Lucida Console sample.svg|Lucida Console
Image:Lucida Handwriting sample.svg|Lucida Handwriting
Image:Lucida Grande sample.svg|[[Lucida Grande]]
Image:Lucida Calligraphy sample.svg|Lucida Calligraphy
Image:Lucida Blackletter sample.svg|Lucida Blackletter
Image:Lucida Fax sample.svg|Lucida Fax
Image:Lucida Bright sample.svg|Lucida Bright
Image:Lucida Serif sample.svg|Lucida Serif
</gallery>
==Usages==
Lucida Console is also the [[Blue Screen of Death]] (as well as [[Notepad]] default) typeface in [[Windows XP]] and [[Windows CE]]. Lucida Sans Demibold (Identical outlines to Lucida Grande Bold but with tighter kerning on numerals) is used in [[Apple Inc.]]'s [[Mac OS X]] operating system, as well as many programs including [[Front Row]].
==References==
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==See Also==
*[[Wingdings]]
==External links==
* [http://www.clagnut.com/blog/266/ clagnut The new typography] (blog entry with some information on variation of Lucida typeface names across systems)
* [http://www.ascendercorp.com/lucida.html ''Lucida'' fonts] (Ascender corporation)
* [http://tug.org/store/lucida/ ''Lucida'' and TeX] (TeX Users Group)
* [http://www.linotype.com/en/112289/lucida-clan.html Lucida Font Family Group - by Kris Holmes, Charles Bigelow] (Linotype corporation)
* [http://www.tug.org/store/lucida/designnotes.html Notes on Lucida], by [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]]
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[[Category:Symbol typefaces]]
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