Lucida Fonts

The Lucida font collection is a wonderful "super family" of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. The Lucida fonts include a variety of type styles ranging from handwriting and calligraphic scripts to legible serif and sans serif fonts.

Lucida Fonts Packages

• Lucida Fonts
• Lucida Blackletter Regular
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Calligraphy Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Casual Regular
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Console Regular
  $30.00
  
• Lucida Handwriting Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Unicode
  $30.00
  

• Lucida Sans Family
  $75.00
  
• Lucida Sans Regular
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Demibold
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Demibold Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Italic
  $20.00
  

• Lucida Sans Schoolbook Family
  $36.00
  
• Lucida Sans Schoolbook Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Schoolbook Bold Italic
  $20.00
  

• Lucida Sans Typewriter Family
  $75.00
  
• Lucida Sans Typewriter Regular
  $20.00
  
• Lucina Sans Typewriter Oblique
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Sans Typewriter Bold
  $20.00
  
• Lucina Sans Typewriter Bold Oblique
  $20.00
  

• Lucida Bright Family
  $75.00
  
• Lucida Bright
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Bright Demibold
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Bright Demibold Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Bright Italic
  $20.00
  

• Lucida Bright Math Family
  $57.00
  
• Lucida Bright Math Symbol
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Bright Math Extension
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Bright Math Italic
  $20.00
  

• Lucida Fax Family
  $75.00
  
• Lucida Fax
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Fax Demibold
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Fax Demiold Italic
  $20.00
  
• Lucida Fax Italic
  $20.00
  

Bigelow & Holmes created the Lucida font family to be highly readable at small sizes and large, and Lucida has proven to be a very popular among a wide audience.

The Lucida fonts are an extensive family or related typefaces that were created in 1985 by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Charles Bigelow is a partner in the design studio of Bigelow & Holmes and a professor of digital typography at Stanford University. A native of Michigan, he developed an early passion for typography as a result of his experience as a writer and editor at Cranbrook Academy, Michigan. At reed College in Oregon, where he graduated, he studied typography with Lloyd Reynolds and later with Jack Stauffacher in San Francisco. With Kris Holmes, his partner, he has designed numberous typefaces including the Lucida font, which is an extended family of serif, sans serif, script, blackletter, greek, scientific and linguistic alphabets designed for laser printing.

Popular variations of the Lucida font are:
Lucida Blackletter fonts - A modern interpretation of a cursive blackletter style used for printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Uses for Lucida Blackletter fonts include a use for signs, posters, menus, or any time you want a font with an antique look.

Lucida Calligraphy Italic font - Script font developed from Chancery cursive. Very easy to read. Looks best in text with 30% - 50% extra line spacing. For example, when using 12 point text, use 18 points of line spacing.

Lucida Sans font - Large x-height, making it legible at all sizes. Uses for the Lucida Sans font: Various uses including directories, tables, forms, memos, faxes, manuals, heads, titles, posters, and displays. 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 Lucida fonts include Lucida Bright, Lucida Arrows, and Lucida Stars. Lucida Fax at smaller sizes and lower resolutions. The ampersands, interrobangs, and circled Lucida Sans numerals in Lucida Icons combine well.