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Originally Posted by bradhaak
Scrivener and Lucida Sans on a Mac. Pretty much use LS for everything on screen[...]But I don't care for the way Windows renders Lucida Sans. On Windows I've been moving toward the newer versions of Segoe UI.
I won't even get into the problems I had deciding on a print font for my books before finally settleing on Berthold Garamond.
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Took a look a Lucida Sans, I was curious about someone choosing a sans-serif font for writing. And I discovered why I took a dislike to it (from Wikipedia):
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In April 2012, Lucida Sans was selected by GfK Blue Moon as the font for a package design as part of a proposed law in Australia banning logos on cigarette packaging. The proposed law requires cigarettes to be sold in dark olive-brown packages that depict graphic images of the effects of smoking and the cigarette's brand printed in Lucida Sans. According to Tom Delaney, a senior designer with New York design consultant Muts & Joy, "Lucida Sans is one of the least graceful sans-serif typefaces designed. It’s clumsy in its line construction." In August 15, 2012, the Australian government approved the ban on cigarette logos, effectively replacing them with the unattractive packaging.
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As a reformed non-smoker (or should that be "rereformed smoker"?) I've been seeing this font in less than attractive circumstances. Maybe I'll like it better if/when I manage to give up again.
I don't actually see it being "least graceful", I don't mind it as a sans-serif font, but I can't see myself using it for writing.