Lucida Grande

Lucida Grande

Category	Sans-Serif
Classification	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.

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

See also

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