Comments on: Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternative

By: TypoThemes’ typography | TypoThemes

TypoThemes’ typography | TypoThemes — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 18:58:21 +0000

[...] the time being, I use the ‘Lucida Hybrid’alternative, but hopefully I’ll find the optimal solution (if you have any tip, I’m all [...]

By: Levi | Stat Centric

Levi | Stat Centric — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 15:09:59 +0000

This article was a lifesaver. I almost abandoned using Lucida Grande, because I hated the way the bolding looked. Lucida Sans has much more proportionate bolding, so now I just combine the two. I understand the article was more about combining lucida sans unicode with lucida sans, but none the less it helped me fix my issue. My fav font is Segoe UI. I noticed you use it on your site. You might want to check it in Windows XP, which uses a different cleartype rendering. Segoe UI looks horrible on XP. For my web app I detect XP and use a different font instead, otherwise I go with Segoe for Windows users and Lucida Grande for Mac Users.

By: iftekhar

iftekhar — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 07:05:02 +0000

I know it might sound little backdated but I like tahoma or georgia font over any other. I am using georgia for my blog but tahoma mostly for ecommerce sites :) thanks for nice post though :)

By: Maxime De Greve

Maxime De Greve — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:16:06 +0000

Fieeeeeuw lucky that I found this fix!

By: 25 Font-tastic Type Resources for Web Designers | Build Internet!

25 Font-tastic Type Resources for Web Designers | Build Internet! — Fri, 29 Oct 2010 21:35:11 +0000

[...] differences and the design vs. readability background.Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternativehttp://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/ Lucida Grande is a great font for many website designs. Unfortunately not everyone has this font [...]

By: Jesse

Jesse — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:38:38 +0000

What I like about the font is that it lets me use the Apple icon that is not available in Windows. Like so:  But I cannot get it to display correctly when posting it on webpages, or chatting with another person, just like my friend Brandon. (Who has Mac OS 10.6.4)

By: Jerry Seeger

Jerry Seeger — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 23:21:10 +0000

The biggest downside to using @font-face to embed Lucida Grande into a Wed site is that it’s probably not legal.

By: andrew

andrew — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:53:11 +0000

For copy-heavy pages, I’d rather stay away from Lucida sans family and default to Verdana. It looks good at small font sizes but at larger ones, I prefer the character shapes of Verdana.

By: alternative investments

alternative investments — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:55:07 +0000

I think it is important to make it look as different as possible. That way people will keep coming back.

By: spindle

spindle — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:05:31 +0000

*(Ditto) Joe Dolson