Lucida Sans Unicode

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Lucida Sans Unicode is an OpenType font created by the design studio Bigelow & Holmes. It is a sans-serif version of the Lucida family designed to cover the most common Unicode characters (version 1.0). The font supports Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, and all IPA symbols. It was the first Unicode font to include non-Latin scripts. Designers Kris Holmes and Charles Bigelow created it in 1993, and it shipped with Windows NT 3.1. Since Windows 98, it has been included with all Windows versions. A very similar font, Lucida Grande, was the default system font on Mac OS X until 2014, when Apple switched to Helvetica Neue; Lucida Grande also added Arabic and Thai. IPA letters, especially upside-down ones, are aligned for easy reading when viewed upside down. This makes Lucida Sans Unicode a good choice for upside-down text compared with many other Unicode fonts. There is a known issue with the combining low line characters U+0332 and U+0333, which can appear as a blank or a tiny underline at small font sizes in some programs. Other well-known Unicode fonts include Code2000, Arial Unicode MS, and various free fonts.