Editing Lucida (section)

{{about|the Lucida font family||Lucidus (disambiguation)}}
{{Short description|Typeface family}}
{{Infobox typeface
| image = Lucida Serif sample.svg
| name = Lucida
| style = [[Sans-serif]], [[serif]], and more
| classifications = 
| creationdate = 
| releasedate = 1984
| creator = [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]]
| foundry = 
| license = Commercial<ref>{{cite web |url=https://lucidafonts.com/pages/eula |title=EULA - Lucida Fonts|work=lucidafonts.com}}</ref>
| metrically_compatible_with = 
|}}
'''Lucida''' (pronunciation: {{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|uː|s|ɪ|d|ə}}<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/blog0805a.htm |title=World atlas of language structures |access-date=2008-09-19 |first=John |last=Wells |work=John Wells’s phonetic blog |date=2008-05-02}}</ref>) is an extended family of related [[typeface]]s designed by [[Charles Bigelow (type designer)|Charles Bigelow]] and [[Kris Holmes]] and released from 1984 onwards.<ref name="How and Why We Designed Lucida">{{cite web |last1=Bigelow |last2=Holmes |title=How and Why We Designed Lucida |url=https://lucidafonts.com/blogs/bigelow-holmes-blog/how-and-why-we-designed-lucida |website=Lucida Fonts |date=11 July 2018 |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref><ref name="TUGboat 2013 Interview with Charles Bigelow">{{cite journal |last1=Wang |first1=Yue |title=Interview with Charles Bigelow |journal=[[TUGboat]] |date=2013 |volume=34 |issue=2 |pages=136–167 |url=http://tug.org/TUGboat/tb34-2/tb107bigelow-wang.pdf |access-date=20 July 2018}}</ref> 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).<ref name="The design of Lucida: an integrated family of types for electronic literacy">{{cite book |last1=Bigelow |first1=Charles |last2=Holmes |first2=Kris |editor1-last=van Vliet |editor1-first=J.C. |title=Text Processing and Document Manipulation: Proceedings of the International Conference, University of Nottingham, 14-16 April 1986 |date=2009 |orig-year=1986 |type=reprint |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |isbn=9780521110310 |pages=1–17 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5SnP-mJt0xUC&pg=PA1 |chapter=The design of Lucida: an integrated family of types for electronic literacy}}</ref>

There are many variants of Lucida, including [[serif]] (Fax, Bright), [[sans-serif]] (Sans, [[Lucida Sans Unicode|Sans Unicode]], [[Lucida Grande|Grande]], Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are released with other software, most notably [[Microsoft Office]].

Bigelow and 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 is still licensed commercially through the [[TeX Users Group|TUG store]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tug.org/store/lucida/index.html |title=Lucida fonts - TeX Users Group |work=tug.org}}</ref> as well through their own web store.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lucidafonts.com/ |title=Lucida Font Store - Home |work=lucidafonts.com}}</ref> The fonts are occasionally updated.