Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface. Humanist fonts are those which allude to human handwriting in the construction of the letters. The sans-serif design can be classified into four major groups, one of which is the humanist group. The typefaces belonging to the humanist group tend to be the most calligraphic, and are typically more legible than other sans-serif fonts. Lucida Grande is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It looks very similar to the typeface Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Unicode, in fact these fonts are almost indistinguishable. The two settings for this typeface are regular and bold, and there is no italicized version of Lucida Grande. Many websites and blogs use Lucida Grande as the default typeface for body text, most likely because it is easy to look at and read, and it one of the more simple fonts resembling human handwriting. On of the most popular sites which use this as a default setting is Facebook.
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