How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)
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How and Why We Designed Lucida (2014)
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#2It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
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#3It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
Though interestingly, a lot of the solutions they arrived at are also generally seen as a good foundation for even printed letterforms (or other high fidelity formats) when the goal is readability.
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#5It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
I've been using Lucida Console as coding font for the past 15 years, due to its great readability at 9 pt (i.e. 12 pixels line height, though nowadays I add two additional pixels of line spacing). Still haven't found a better replacement.
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#6It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
> It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic.
As I understand the entomology of the word, that's literally "technique". As you note, this can change over time as mediums evolve, but a major aspect of creators' work is working and innovating within the technological constraints of a medium.
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#7One of the forever useable font family. Despite being quite so old and yet modern till date.
Alot of the designs created by us utilizes lucida as well as fonts inspired by lucida. Over the decade, we've experienced wide acceptance of lucida font family by our subscribers.
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#8It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
> It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. As I understand the entomology of the word, that's literally "technique". As you note, this can change over time as mediums evolve, but a major aspect of creators' work is working and innovating within the technological constraints of a medium.
You probably mean 'etymology'. The other one is about bugs.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
> It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. As I understand the entomology of the word, that's literally "technique". As you note, this can change over time as mediums evolve, but a major aspect of creators' work is working and innovating within the technological constraints of a medium.
You probably mean 'etymology'. The other one is about bugs.
Yes, thank you!
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#10It's interesting to see just how finely tuned it was to practicality and technological constraints rather than an artistic aesthetic. Those constraints have relaxed enough that we are more free to explore beautiful typography now.
I've been using Lucida Console as coding font for the past 15 years, due to its great readability at 9 pt (i.e. 12 pixels line height, though nowadays I add two additional pixels of line spacing). Still haven't found a better replacement.
I like Lucida Console, but I usually use Lucida Sans Typewriter[1] as my editor font. It's a bit taller and skinnier than Lucida Console, and works well with a line-height of about 1.2.
[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/font-list/lucida...