Comments on: Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternative http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/ Design wisdom in red and grey. Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Brownspank http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30941 Brownspank Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:26:22 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30941 <strong><a href="#comment-30940" rel="nofollow">Nora Brown</a>:</strong> Interesting observation! What versions of IE did this work with? Nora Brown: Interesting observation! What versions of IE did this work with?

]]> By: Nora Brown http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30940 Nora Brown Mon, 30 Jun 2008 18:10:48 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30940 From my testing, it seems like if you leave "Lucida Sans Unicode" in the italic/bold rule, Windows IE will try to emulate with that font, rather than moving on to the next, so I had to take that out of the rule altogether. For italic I settled on: Lucida Sans, Trebuchet MS Italic (windows), Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif For bold: Lucida Sans, Lucida Grande (mac), Trebuchet MS Bold (windows), Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif From my testing, it seems like if you leave “Lucida Sans Unicode” in the italic/bold rule, Windows IE will try to emulate with that font, rather than moving on to the next, so I had to take that out of the rule altogether.
For italic I settled on:
Lucida Sans, Trebuchet MS Italic (windows), Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
For bold:
Lucida Sans, Lucida Grande (mac), Trebuchet MS Bold (windows), Trebuchet, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif

]]> By: Brownspank http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30761 Brownspank Fri, 16 May 2008 03:37:25 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30761 <a href="#comment-30759" rel="nofollow">Lachlan</a>: Ah, I understand now. :) I updated the CSS accordingly; it should now be Joomla-friendly. Thanks! Lachlan: Ah, I understand now. :) I updated the CSS accordingly; it should now be Joomla-friendly. Thanks!

]]> By: Lachlan http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30759 Lachlan Thu, 15 May 2008 22:54:05 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30759 Thanks - the issue for was that I'm used to Italacising using an "i" tag and not familiar with using an 'em' tag - My Content Management System - Joomla, wraps text in "i" tags by default. I added "i" to the "strong, em' class and it all works perfectly now. Cheers Thanks - the issue for was that I’m used to Italacising using an “i” tag and not familiar with using an ‘em’ tag - My Content Management System - Joomla, wraps text in “i” tags by default.
I added “i” to the “strong, em’ class and it all works perfectly now.
Cheers

]]> By: Brownspank http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30754 Brownspank Tue, 13 May 2008 03:00:45 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30754 <a href="#comment-30753" rel="nofollow">Lachlan</a>: I think you have it backwards. The idea here is to leave the choosing of fonts to the CSS, such that you get the best Lucida look on Windows. Treat it as a single font, and write your markup based on meaning, not style. Hope this clears it up. Lachlan: I think you have it backwards. The idea here is to leave the choosing of fonts to the CSS, such that you get the best Lucida look on Windows. Treat it as a single font, and write your markup based on meaning, not style. Hope this clears it up.

]]> By: Lachlan http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30753 Lachlan Mon, 12 May 2008 19:50:38 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30753 so it's taken the "em" i put in the above and styled is - whoops silly me - it should have read: There is one thing I don’t understand - I’ve looked at the source code and it seems you have wrapped all the italics in "em" tags - Isn’t this going to mean a major amount of work when writing content if you have to do this manually each time you want to switch font? so it’s taken the “em” i put in the above and styled is - whoops silly me - it should have read:
There is one thing I don’t understand - I’ve looked at the source code and it seems you have wrapped all the italics in “em” tags - Isn’t this going to mean a major amount of work when writing content if you have to do this manually each time you want to switch font?

]]> By: Lachlan http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30752 Lachlan Mon, 12 May 2008 19:46:45 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30752 Great solution - There is one thing I don't understand - I've looked at the source code and it seems you have wrapped all the italics in <em>?? Isn't this going to mean a major amount of work when writing content if you have to do this manually each time you want to switch font? Great solution - There is one thing I don’t understand - I’ve looked at the source code and it seems you have wrapped all the italics in ?? Isn’t this going to mean a major amount of work when writing content if you have to do this manually each time you want to switch font?

]]> By: Rachel http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30668 Rachel Wed, 19 Mar 2008 14:55:16 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30668 I love Lucida Grande on the Mac, but have been struggling with getting the other Lucida variants to look the way I want on the PC. Excellent solution. Thank you! I love Lucida Grande on the Mac, but have been struggling with getting the other Lucida variants to look the way I want on the PC.

Excellent solution. Thank you!

]]> By: How to use the Lucida font properly! - Sean Johnson http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30630 How to use the Lucida font properly! - Sean Johnson Mon, 25 Feb 2008 10:00:45 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30630 [...] you really want to get typographically pedantic, so I suggest reading this article for more info: Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternative For a comprehensive guide to pre-installed fonts on Windows, Macs and Linux check this article: [...] […] you really want to get typographically pedantic, so I suggest reading this article for more info: Lucida Hybrid: The ‘Grande’ Alternative For a comprehensive guide to pre-installed fonts on Windows, Macs and Linux check this article: […]

]]> By: Jelle Desramaults http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30556 Jelle Desramaults Wed, 19 Dec 2007 13:25:25 +0000 http://www.brownbatterystudios.com/sixthings/2007/03/14/lucida-hybrid-the-grande-alternative/#comment-30556 I wonder how many people have ClearType enabled on their machine. without it everything looks really, realy bad :/ I wonder how many people have ClearType enabled on their machine.

without it everything looks really, realy bad :/

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