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Lucida Grande is a font included with the Mac OS X operating system. It is a member of the Lucida family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. It is used throughout the user interface.

Like the similar Microsoft Windows font Lucida Sans Unicode, it supports the most commonly used characters defined in version 2.0 of the Unicode standard. This font also looks similar to Myriad.

Supported Scripts/Unicode Ranges

Lucida Grande supports the following scripts/Unicode ranges:

Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Hebrew
Arabic
Thai

Differences between Myriad and Lucida Grande

The main differences between Myriad and Lucida Grande are:

The Arabic numeral 1 has a base in Lucida Grande, and Myriad has no base on the numeral 1
The dots on lowercase i's and j's are square in Lucida Grande, and round in Myriad
The bar on the dollar sign ($) and cent sign (¢) runs through the symbol in Lucida Grande
The asterisk is five-sided in Lucida Grande, and six-sided in Myriad
The uppercase J goes below the baseline in Lucida Grande
The comma in Lucida Grande looks like a single closing quotation mark, while it looks like a diagonal line in Myriad
The lowercase "a" in Lucida Grande has a tail at the bottom right corner, while the lowercase "a" in Myriad has no tail
The lowercase "y" in Lucida Grande has a straight tail, while it is curved in Myriad
The uppercase "G" in Lucida Grande has no horizontal bar in the middle, but does have one in Myriad

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