Comments on: Use Lucida, Lose Your Readers http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/ Fun, experiements and tutorials in front end web development Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:19:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: frontend http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-21 Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:40:02 +0100 http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-21 I have just noticed that if I turn on ClearType, the font rendering on that page looks much better at my default size. Still looks bad at some other sizes, though. I have just noticed that if I turn on ClearType, the font rendering on that page looks much better at my default size. Still looks bad at some other sizes, though.

]]> by: Al Guevara http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-18 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:51:23 +0100 http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-18 "Lucida Grande", must be a MAC font no? And "Lucida Sans" renders as a sort of ITALIC font, looks horrible. But, "Lucida Sans Unicode" looks fine at all res, and all font size increases via the browser. A site I did a few years ago shows the successful use of <a href="http://www.phoenix-tenant-representation.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.phoenix-tenant-representation.com</a> "Lucida Sans Unicode" “Lucida Grande”, must be a MAC font no? And “Lucida Sans” renders as a sort of ITALIC font, looks horrible. But, “Lucida Sans Unicode” looks fine at all res, and all font size increases via the browser.

A site I did a few years ago shows the successful use of http://www.phoenix-tenant-representation.com “Lucida Sans Unicode”

]]> by: Felix Miata http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-13 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 22:24:54 +0100 http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-13 When you choose Lucida Sans you need to understand what you\'re specifying and specify what you mean: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-comps-lucida.html Back when Web 1.0 was new, this was what Lucida Sans meant: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-lsansi.gif On many systems that\'s still what happens. OTOH, Lucida Sans Unicode has unusual leading, so if you mean to specify that, you probably need to specify line-height explicitly: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-lsansuni-ldr.html When you choose Lucida Sans you need to understand what you\’re specifying and specify what you mean: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/Font/fonts-comps-lucida.html

Back when Web 1.0 was new, this was what Lucida Sans meant: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-lsansi.gif

On many systems that\’s still what happens.

OTOH, Lucida Sans Unicode has unusual leading, so if you mean to specify that, you probably need to specify line-height explicitly: http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/SS/font-lsansuni-ldr.html

]]> by: David Hucklesby http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-12 Thu, 12 Apr 2007 19:06:23 +0100 http://frontend.blogsome.com/2007/04/12/use-lucida-lose-your-readers/#comment-12 Interesting. I specify "Lucida Grande" followed by "Lucida Sans" at 100%. I do not have Grande on my XP laptop, but running at 120 DPI with Clear Type, the Sans looks terrific (I think). I was mortified last week when I saw it at work on a regular desktop, running at more usual 96 DPI. As you say, it looks terrible. FWIW - I leave main body text scaled at 100% so it may be more than a scaling issue. Interesting. I specify “Lucida Grande” followed by “Lucida Sans” at 100%. I do not have Grande on my XP laptop, but running at 120 DPI with Clear Type, the Sans looks terrific (I think).

I was mortified last week when I saw it at work on a regular desktop, running at more usual 96 DPI. As you say, it looks terrible.

FWIW - I leave main body text scaled at 100% so it may be more than a scaling issue.

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