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| Category | Sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Humanist |
| Designers | Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes |
| Foundry | Bigelow & Holmes |
| Date released | November 16, 1999 |
Lucida Grande is ahumanist sans-seriftypeface. It is a member of theLucida family of typefaces designed byCharles Bigelow andKris Holmes. It is best known for its implementation throughout themacOS user interface from 1999 to 2014, as well as in other Apple software likeSafari forWindows. As ofOS X Yosemite (version 10.10), the system font was changed from Lucida Grande toHelvetica Neue.[1] InOS X El Capitan (version 10.11) the system font changed again, this time toSan Francisco.[2]
The typeface looks very similar toLucida Sans andLucida Sans Unicode. Like Sans Unicode, Grande supports the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of theUnicode standard.
Threeweights of Lucida Grande: Normal, Bold, and Black, in three styles: Roman, Italic, and Oblique, were developed by Bigelow & Holmes. Apple released the Regular (Normal Roman) and Bold Roman with OS X.
In June, 2014, Bigelow & Holmes released four weights: Light, Normal, Bold, and Black, in three styles: Roman, Italic, and Oblique. B&H also released Narrow versions of those twelve weight/styles, plus four Lucida Grande Monospaced fonts in Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic styles, with narrow versions of the four monospaced weight/styles.[3]
Lucida Grande fonts directly from Bigelow & Holmes contain the pan-European WGL character set.
Lucida Grande contains 2,826 Unicode-encodedglyphs (2,245 characters) in version 5.0d8e1 (Revision 1.002).
Language support by version:
| 3.7d8 | 5.0d8e1 revision 1.002[4] | 6.0d10e1 revision 6.004 (OSX 10.5)[5] | 6.1d4e1 (OSX 10.6) | |
| Afrikaans | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Albanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Azerbaijani | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Basque | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Belarusian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Bulgarian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Cornish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Croatian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Czech | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Danish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Dutch | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Esperanto | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Estonian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Faroese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Finnish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| French | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Galician | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| German | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Greek | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hausa | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Hawaiian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hebrew | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Hungarian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Icelandic | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Indonesian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Irish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Italian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kalaallisut | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Kazakh | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Latvian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lithuanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Macedonian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Malay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Maltese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Manx | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Norwegian Bokmål | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Oromo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Polish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Portuguese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Romanian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Russian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Serbian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovak | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Slovenian | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Somali | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spanish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Swahili | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Swedish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Thai | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Turkish | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Ukrainian | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Uzbek | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Vietnamese | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Welsh | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Almost all glyphs in Lucida Grande (and Lucida Grande Bold) look identical to their matching counterparts in Lucida Sans (and Lucida Sans Demibold) as well as Lucida Sans Unicode, with the very few exceptions of:
These slightly different characters look clearer in small font sizes in display anduser interface (especially graphical and web-based) uses.
Note: If you have installed Lucida Grande font onWindows orLinux you will see followings above.
Apart frommacOS releases prior toOS X Yosemite, manywebsites andblogs use Lucida Grande as the default typeface for body text, for exampleFacebook,Archive of Our Own and manyphpBBforums. Since this typeface is usually absent from most other operating systems like Windows andLinux, theCSSstyle sheets of these websites often include the fonts (usuallySans-serif):Tahoma,Verdana,Trebuchet MS,Segoe UI,Calibri,DejaVu Sans,Arial,Open Sans, or evenLucida Sans Unicode, in case Lucida Grande is unavailable for rendering. After the introduction of OS X Yosemite where Lucida Grande is no longer used as the default system font, several developers have created utilities to bring Lucida Grande back as the default system font.[6]
Although it was designed primarily as a screen font, Lucida Grande/Sans also appears frequently in print, due at least in part to the ubiquity of Mac platform (and thus the typeface) in professional-grade desktop publishing. TheGetty-DubayItalic Handwriting Series ofpenmanship workbooks in particular is typeset primarily in a specially modified version of Lucida Sans (with a cursive lowercase "y"), as its monoline italic bears a close resemblance to the form of writing that the program teaches.
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