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Larry Stoter
Oct 17, 2015, 4:40:13 AM10/17/15
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There's no italic style for Lucida Grande on my Mac - never has been,
from what I recall ...
As a fairly standard non-serif font, I find this a little odd.
Anybody any idea why?
Larry
from what I recall ...
As a fairly standard non-serif font, I find this a little odd.
Anybody any idea why?
Larry
eastender
Oct 17, 2015, 6:42:16 AM10/17/15
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buy the rest of the family or force an italic look in programs such as
Word and InDesign.
http://lucidafonts.com/fonts/family/lucida-grande/samples
E. (marc)
Calum
Oct 17, 2015, 10:47:40 AM10/17/15
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On 17/10/2015 11:42, eastender wrote:
> On 2015-10-17 08:40:11 +0000, Larry Stoter said:
>
>> There's no italic style for Lucida Grande on my Mac - never has been,
>> from what I recall ...
>>
>> As a fairly standard non-serif font, I find this a little odd.
>>
>> Anybody any idea why?
>
> Apple has only licensed the regular and bold roman versions. You can buy
> the rest of the family or force an italic look in programs such as Word
> and InDesign.
Specifically, one would guess, they only licensed those two because
> On 2015-10-17 08:40:11 +0000, Larry Stoter said:
>
>> There's no italic style for Lucida Grande on my Mac - never has been,
>> from what I recall ...
>>
>> As a fairly standard non-serif font, I find this a little odd.
>>
>> Anybody any idea why?
>
> Apple has only licensed the regular and bold roman versions. You can buy
> the rest of the family or force an italic look in programs such as Word
> and InDesign.
Lucida Grande was the default desktop font, and in general, italics and
other variants aren't good choices for UIs.
Larry Stoter
Oct 18, 2015, 10:12:20 AM10/18/15
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I quite like Lucida Grande, a nice clear, simple font which I tend to
use it as my default font. Very occassionaly, I want to italicise a word
and I can't ... Pages, Keynote, NeoOffice, etc won't generate an italic
variant.
Larry
ErikRS
Oct 23, 2015, 9:05:29 PM10/23/15
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Larry Stoter wrote:
> I quite like Lucida Grande, a nice clear, simple font which I tend to
> use it as my default font. Very occassionaly, I want to italicise a word
> and I can't ... Pages, Keynote, NeoOffice, etc won't generate an italic
> variant.
Pages 09 and Bean 3.x won't create italics. Also tried a few minor apps
which also won't make italics. Common for all these are that they are
using the build-in font engine from the system.
Tried AppleWorks 6.2.9, Filemaker Pro 11.x, MarinerWrite 3.9.x,
OpenOffice 4.x, NisusWriter Pro 1.5.x/2.x, Ragtime 6.x, MSWord 2008. All
of these will make italics when hightlighting a word, sentence,
paragraph or full text and then use COM+I...
Cheers, Erik Richard
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