Comments on: Lucida Hybrid Revisited

By: Darryl

Darryl — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:06:23 +0000

I just ran into this problem today with my blog which uses “Lucida Sans” as the primary font for body text.
Now this is really, really weird: only in Firefox (3.5.8) on Windows Vista the font looks horribly bold and the italicized text looks awful (like it’s going to fall over). Now, same version of Firefox but on Windows XP -and everything looks a-ok.

Interestingly, this doesn’t happen at all in Chrome, Safari, or IE -just Firefox.
When I change the font to “Lucida Sans Unicode” -it renders fine.
Strange…in any case I think I’ll be ditching Lucida for another typeface.

By: shamanyy

shamanyy — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:26:39 +0000

As I see, the option seems needed to be considered. However partially agreed with your idea.

By: Brownspank

Brownspank — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:05:26 +0000

@Jon: It all boils down to the type of look you're going for (and to a lesser extent, your personal preferences). I use Lucida Sans as it is the closest match to Grande. Something like: font-family: "Lucida Sans", "Lucida Grande", Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:11:18 +0000

I wonder if this is a safer option. Lucida Sans in my opinion doesn’t look as good as Tahoma on a Windows machine.

Font Family: “lucida grande”,tahoma,verdana,arial,sans-serif
Font Size: 11px

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:48:52 +0000

So what is your CSS preference now? A CSS example would be great!