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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Too bad Helvetica wasn’t also shipped with Safari for Windows.
But why do this? So that IE and Firefox can also render text in Lucida Grande, but do an awful job of it?
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.
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
Eduardo: You are very correct sir. How does this look?
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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.
Looks the same as Trebuchet MS for Windows. A little lighter, maybe.
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.
I personally like Lucida Grande, but I also prefer Monaco.
Did you prefer the font Andalus in Windows XP?
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%.
This doesn’t seem to be working anymore. I was unable to locate the files and Safari doesn’t seem to know Lucida Grande.
As a web designer Lucinda Grande is unbeatable on a Mac – but most PC uses won’t have the font, so if I set my font to
“Lucida Grande”, “Lucida Sans Unicode”, sans-serif;
PC users will see Lucinda Sans Unicode – its okay but no where as good as Lucinda Grande on a Mac.
Don’t forget that some people use linux too, and for what I have been reading about, Lucida Grande nor Lucida Sans Unicode exist in Linux, so I think the best to do would be:
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, ‘Verdana’, sans-serif;
I have compared Lucida G. with Verdana, and the are very similar… Although Verdana seems bigger, yet when it comes to height, it is 1px less than Lucida Grande…
I have started on a big web application so have been planning how I will make it look like!