About Lucida Bright

Lucida Bright has a brilliant look that comes from high contrast between stems and fine hairlines, sharply cut details of serifs and joins, and tight letter fitting. Lucida Bright Regular has a formal, authoritative, and elegant appearance. Lucida Bright Demibold and Demibold Italic are strong enough for emphasis and headings, but light enough for full paragraphs of text. The crisply defined forms of the Lucida Bright font family is effective at larger sizes in titles, headlines and display. Lucida Bright’s large x-height helps text look big at small point sizes, and its tight fitting and slightly narrow letterforms help fit more words on a line. The Lucida Bright font family is especially effective where legibility and economy are important, as in the text columns of newsletters, manuals, magazines, and newspapers. For wider text columns, as in books, Lucida Bright is most effective with additional leading or line spacing. Lucida Bright is a modern design of the computer age, but its inner forms are based on writing styles of the Italian Renaissance. Like many typefaces, Lucida Bright can be fine-tuned for small sizes (8 point and below) by adding a few units of letterspacing (positive tracking). Lucida Sans is the perfect sans-serif companion to Lucida Bright.