![]() Lucida’s large x-height has two functions that help it adapt to reading on screens and printing on modest resolution devices. The x-height of Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans, and all other Lucida fonts is large, approximately 53% of the body size. After these initial paragraphs, we offer further notes including pros and cons, alternative views, personal recollections of our teachers, and a bibliography. Over the past 30 years, some of our reasons have been proven well founded, while others have been irrelevant to trends in typography, and some remain inconclusive. ![]() To observe the 30th anniversary of the family, we offer these notes on salient features of the original Lucida fonts, and what we thought when we designed them in the early 1980s. We first wrote about “The Design of Lucida” in 1986, and on “The Design of a Unicode Font” (Lucida Sans Unicode) in 1993. 2014 is the 30th anniversary of the first showing of Lucida, the first family of original, digital typefaces for laser printing and screen displays, so we think it is time to write more about our approach to the design. ![]()
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