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A collection of Lucida variants are included in the Oracle JRE 9. Lucida is also used in the logo for Air Canada.
Lucida Grande, as well as Lucida Sans Demibold (identical outlines to Lucida Grande Bold but with tighter spacing of numerals), were used as the primary user interface font in Apple Inc.'s Mac OS X operating system until OS X Yosemite, as well as many programs including Front Row. In Windows 2000 until Windows 7, and in Windows CE, Lucida Console is used as the typeface of the Blue Screen of Death. From Windows 2000 until Windows 7, Lucida Console is used as the default typeface of Notepad. Lucida Console is used in various parts of Microsoft Windows. Lucida is still licensed commercially through the TUG store as well through their own web store.
Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office.īigelow & 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. There are many variants of Lucida, including serif (Fax, Bright), sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand). Lucida (pronunciation: / ˈ l uː s ɪ d ə/ ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards.