page_title: Lucida
section_title: Lucida Bright
hierarchical_section_title: Lucida / Lucida Bright
context_page_description: Lucida is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid'.
  There are many variants of Lucida, including serif, sans-serif and scripts. Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office.
  Bigelow & Holmes, together with the TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full set of TeX mathematical symbols, making it one of the few typefaces that provide full-featured text and mathematical typesetting within TeX. Lucida is still licensed commercially through the TUG store as well through their own web store. The fonts are occasionally updated.
context_section_description: Based on Lucida Serif, it features more contrasted strokes and serifs.
  The font was first used as the text face for Scientific American magazine, and its letter-spacing was tightened to give it a slightly closer fit for use in two and three column formats.
caption: Lucida Bright