Characteristics of Lucida™ Sans Italic: Large x-height, making it readable at all sizes. Uses for Lucida Sans Italic: Wide range of uses including directories, tables, forms, memos, faxes, manuals, heads, titles, posters, and displays. Guidelines for Lucida Sans Italic: At larger sizes (14 points or more), subtracting a few units of letter spacing gives a tighter look. When using all capitals, you can use small amounts of additional letter spacing. At larger sizes, space capitals more tightly. Complementary fonts include Lucida Bright, Lucida Arrows, and Lucida Stars. Lucida Fax at smaller sizes and lower resolutions. The ampersands, interrobangs, and circled Lucida Sans Italic numerals in Lucida Icons combine well. Type Designer - Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow. Character Set - Latin 1.