Lucida Sans Unicode
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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Humanist |
| Designer(s) | Charles Bigelow Kris Holmes |
| Foundry | Bigelow & Holmes |
| Date released | 1993 |
Lucida Sans Unicodeis anOpenTypetypefacefrom the design studio of Bigelow & Holmes,[1]designed to support the most commonly used characters defined in version 1.0 of theUnicodestandard. It is asans-serifvariant of theLucidafont family and supportsLatin,Greek,CyrillicandHebrewscripts, as well as all the characters used in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet.
It is the first Unicode encoded font to include non-Latin scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew). It was designed byKris HolmesandCharles Bigelowin 1993, and was first shipped with the MicrosoftWindows NT 3.1operating system.
The font comes pre-installed with all Microsoft Windows versions sinceWindows 98.A nearly identical font, calledLucida Grande,shipped as the default system font with Apple'sMac OS Xoperating system, until switching toHelvetica Neuein 2014 withOS X Yosemite;Lucida Grande added support for Arabic and Thai scripts.
Letters in theInternational Phonetic Alphabet,particularly upside down letters, are aligned for easy reading upside down. Thus, the font is among the most ideal forupside-down text,compared to other Unicode typefaces, which have the turned "t" and "h" characters aligned with their tops at the base line and thus appear out of line.
The typeface has a flaw in thecombining low linecharacter (U+0332) and the combining double low line character (U+0333), which are rendered as a blank or as a simple tiny underline when font-size is less than 238 point or so in word processors.
Other well-known Unicode fonts includeCode2000,Arial Unicode MS,and the variousFree software Unicode typefaces.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^All Bigelow & Holmes Lucida typefaces are distributed by the designers throughThe Lucida Fonts Storeand a subset of Lucida fonts is distributed byAscender Corporation[dead link]acquired byMonotype Imaging Holdings, Inc.Archived2005-02-08 at theWayback Machinein December 2010.
- "The design of a Unicode font",by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Electronic Publishing, Vol. 6(3), 289-305 (September 1993).
External links
[edit]- Lucida Fonts Matrix
- Microsoft typography: Lucida Sans Unicode
- Lucida Sans Unicode,described by Roman Czyborra.
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