Lucida Grande contains 2,826 Unicode-encoded glyphs (2,245 characters) in version 5.0d8e1 (Revision 1.002). 2 Similarity to Lucida Sans/Lucida Sans Unicode.Lucida Grande fonts directly from Bigelow & Holmes contain the pan-European WGL character set. B&H also released Narrow versions of those twelve weight/styles, plus four Lucida Grande Monospaced fonts in Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic styles, with narrow versions of the four monospaced weight/styles.
In June, 2014, Bigelow & Holmes released four weights: Light, Normal, Bold, and Black, in three styles: Roman, Italic, and Oblique. Apple released the Regular (Normal Roman) and Bold Roman with OS X. Three weights of Lucida Grande: Normal, Bold, and Black, in three styles: Roman, Italic, and Oblique, were developed by Bigelow & Holmes. Like Sans Unicode, Grande supports the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard. The typeface looks very similar to Lucida Sans and Lucida Sans Unicode. In OS X El Capitan (version 10.11) the system font changed again, this time to San Francisco. As of OS X Yosemite (version 10.10), the system font was changed from Lucida Grande to Helvetica Neue. It’s best known for its implementation throughout the macOS user interface from 1999 to 2014, as well as in other Apple software like Safari for Windows. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. Lucida Grande is a humanist sans-serif typeface.
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