Lucida® Type 1 fonts

The Lucida® font set available in Type 1 format from TUG contains the roman Lucida Bright (with small caps), Lucida Typewriter (both sans and roman), the extra-heavy Lucida Fax, blackletter, calligraphic, and casual variations, and the Lucida mathematical fonts. (A somewhat larger set of Lucida fonts is available in OpenType format.)

These are exactly the same fonts previously offered by Y&Y, and a license upgrade for Y&Y users who are TUG members is available. The license offered by TUG has slightly more relaxed terms than Y&Y's; most notably, it allows embedding of the fonts in normal PDF documents. The fonts themselves are unchanged.

Documentation and samples

Sample LaTeX documents using Lucida are available, including examples of the math fonts. The image below shows a few characters from each font.

Our Type 1 font installation instructions are online if you don't have our welcome email handy.

Package documentation for lucidabr (plain text notes on options) and detailed documentation (PDF, with symbol lists and code).

Ordering and availability

To order, please use this online order form for the Lucida fonts, and thanks for supporting TUG.

In addition, if you already have the Type 1 font files, the current releases of all support files (TeX metrics and LaTeX package) are available from CTAN.

Lucida Type 1 font list

lbr LucidaBright lbi LucidaBright-Italic lbsl LucidaBright-Oblique lbd LucidaBright-Demi lbdi LucidaBright-DemiItalic lbrsc LucidaBrightSmallcaps lbdsc LucidaBrightSmallcaps-Demi lstr LucidaSans-Typewriter lsto LucidaSans-TypewriterOblique lstb LucidaSans-TypewriterBold lstbo LucidaSans-TypewriterBoldOblique lbtr LucidaTypewriter lbto LucidaTypewriterOblique lbtb LucidaTypewriterBold lbtbo LucidaTypewriterBoldOblique lsr LucidaSans lsi LucidaSans-Italic lsd LucidaSans-Demi lsdi LucidaSans-DemiItalic lsb LucidaSans-Bold lsbi LucidaSans-BoldItalic lfr LucidaFax lfi LucidaFax-Italic lfd LucidaFax-Demi lfdi LucidaFax-DemiItalic lbl LucidaBlackletter lbc LucidaCalligraphy-Italic lbh LucidaHandwriting-Italic lbkr LucidaCasual lbki LucidaCasual-Italic lbmr LucidaNewMath-Roman lbmd LucidaNewMath-Demibold lbmi LucidaNewMath-Italic lbmdi LucidaNewMath-DemiItalic lbms LucidaNewMath-Symbol lbmsd LucidaNewMath-Symbol-Demi lbme LucidaNewMath-Extension lbmo LucidaNewMath-AltItalic lbmdo LucidaNewMath-AltDemiItalic lbma LucidaNewMath-Arrows lbmad LucidaNewMath-Arrows-Demi

Caveat: If you use Adobe Type Manager (ATM) to install the fonts, you may notice that LucidaSans-TypewriterOblique fails to install properly. In this case, feel free to contact us for replacement fonts. This is only relevant for installs using ATM; normal installations, e.g., for TeX Live, MiKTeX, etc., do not have this problem. (The replacement fonts have the same glyphs, only the font names themselves are different.)

Thanks to Walter Schmidt for creating and updating the TeX font support files for the Type 1 fonts, and PCTeX for sponsoring him and allowing his work to be redistributed.