Lucida sans unicode light1/5/2023 ![]() There is something inconsistent in your description, though! Given that you find Lucida Sans performing well for print (assuming 600 or 1200dpi) and conceivably OK for low resolution screens, it makes little technical sense that it wouldn't perform better on higher resolution screens than on lower resolution screens. What was loved and leading edge 28 years ago may not be that well regarded today. However, times change, technology changes, and tastes change. In 1985 when I was working for Imagen, an early laser printer vendor, we very successfully bundled Lucida and Lucida Sans with our 240 and 300dpi products. In terms of yielding well-rendered text on low resolution laser printers, Lucida and Lucida Sans was fairly successful. Note that at that time, especially given the very low resolution of computer CRT screens and lack of processor speed and memory, screen display was normally done with hand-tuned bitmap fonts on-the-fly screen rendering was not feasible. ![]() ![]() ![]() The design of these typefaces was done to specifically address the issues of renderability and readability with the 240 to 300dpi laser printers of the day, not necessarily for screen reading. The Lucida and Lucida Sans family of typefaces were designed back in 1985 by Charles Bigelow and Chris Holmes. ![]()
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