Editing Lucida (section)

==Key features==
The Lucida fonts have a large [[x-height]] (tall lower-case letters), open apertures and quite widely spaced letters, classic features of fonts designed for legibility in body text.<ref name="TUGboat 2013 Interview with Charles Bigelow" /> Capital letters were designed to be somewhat narrow and short in order to make all-caps acronyms blend in. Bigelow has said in interview that the characters were designed based on hand-drawn bitmaps to see what parts of letters needed to be clear in bitmap, before creating outlines that would render as clear bitmaps. The fonts include ligatures, but these are not needed for text, allowing use on simplistic typesetting systems. x-heights are consistent between the fonts. Hinting was used to allow onscreen display.