Lucida (pronunciation: /ˈluːsɪdə/[2]) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards.

[4] Capital letters were designed to be somewhat narrow and short in order to make all-caps acronyms blend in.

The fonts include ligatures, but these are not needed for text, allowing use on simplistic typesetting systems.

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.

In 2014, Bigelow & Holmes released additional weights in normal and narrow widths.

A monospaced font that is a variant of Lucida Sans Typewriter, with smaller line spacing and the addition of the WGL4 character set.

In 2014, Bigelow & Holmes released bold weights and italics in normal and narrow widths.

A font, released in 1992, designed to resemble informal cursive handwriting with modern plastic-tipped or felt-tipped pens or markers.

It supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai scripts.

Its styling is reminiscent of Letter Gothic and Andalé Mono; a variant, Lucida Console (see above), replaced those two fonts on Microsoft Windows systems.

Based on Lucida Sans Regular, this version added characters in Arrows, Block Elements, Box Drawing, Combining Diacritical Marks, Control Pictures, Currency Symbols, Cyrillic, General Punctuation, Geometric Shapes, Greek and Coptic, Hebrew, IPA Extensions, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Letterlike Symbols, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Symbols, Miscellaneous Technical, Spacing Modifier Letters, Superscripts and Subscripts regions.

"[12] On August 15, 2012, the Australian government approved the ban on cigarette logos, effectively replacing them with the unattractive packaging.