Lucida Grande On Windows!!

I don’t know about you, but I love the Lucida Grande font from Apple. As far as I have been able to tell it has never been available for windows. Well, today that all ends. Today Apple released Safari for windows. If you install it, it comes with Lucida Grande for Safari. If you navigate to Program Files -> Safari -> Safari.resources there are lucida grande.ttf and lucida grand bold.ttf files, drag to windows font manager in control panel, reload firefox/explorer and enjoy the beautiful fonts!

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13 Responses to “Lucida Grande On Windows!!”


  1. 1 Tim

    Too bad Helvetica wasn’t also shipped with Safari for Windows.

  2. 2 Ben Darlow

    But why do this? So that IE and Firefox can also render text in Lucida Grande, but do an awful job of it?

  3. 3 Pablo

    Ben: I happen to think the font looks great in Firefox. This also makes it available system wide, including things like photoshop and word which might be useful for some people. It appears to my (untrained) eye that safari in windows uses the same font rendering engine as the rest of the applications(firefox, IE, etc) so there is no reason to believe safari would do a better job over those two.

  4. 4 Eduardo

    I am loving safari for windows. I was unable to read Pablo’s comments… that color combination is too bright and unreadable, I tried to read but I could only see straight lines and they seemed to move :S I am using an LCD screen

  5. 5 Pablo

    Eduardo: You are very correct sir. How does this look?

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  7. 7 matt

    Pablo,

    Safari uses different font rendering technology to any Windows application. Firefox also uses something different again, as far as I know.

    All MS applications use the same (Windows) font rendering.

  8. 8 Jospo

    Looks the same as Trebuchet MS for Windows. A little lighter, maybe.

  9. 9 Brady

    I personally don’t like Lucida Grande, although if you go to the Windows spectrum and look at Segoe UI or Calibri, those are nice looking fonts.

  10. 10 evodanh

    I personally like Lucida Grande, but I also prefer Monaco.

  11. 11 386sky

    Did you prefer the font Andalus in Windows XP?

  12. 12 Adrian

    I always wondered why I have Lucida Grande on my Vista, and hoped that everyone using Vista had it, too.
    Sadly enough, I found by reading this article that Safari brings the font with it.
    Why browser/OS/font compatibility is always about bad news? :) I don’t remember any recent reason for cross-browser happiness except for IE5.x going under 1%.

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