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character (U+0332) and the combining double low line character (U+0333), which are rendered as a blank or as a simple tiny underline when font-size is less than 238 point or so in word processors.
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from the design studio of Bigelow & Holmes, designed to support the most commonly used characters defined in version 1.0 of the
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It is the first Unicode encoded font to include non-Latin scripts (Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew). It was designed by
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All Bigelow & Holmes Lucida typefaces are distributed by the designers through
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The font comes pre-installed with all Microsoft Windows versions since
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Typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow (type designer)
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Category
Sans-serif
Classification
Humanist
Designer(s)
Charles Bigelow
Kris Holmes
Foundry
OpenType
typeface
Unicode
sans-serif
Lucida
Latin
Greek
Cyrillic
Hebrew
International Phonetic Alphabet
Kris Holmes
Charles Bigelow
Windows NT 3.1
Windows 98
Lucida Grande
Mac OS X
Helvetica Neue
OS X Yosemite
International Phonetic Alphabet
upside-down text
combining low line

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