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Free alternatives to Lucida Grande

Lucida Grande is not an open font. These open fonts come closest by measured letter widths, the property that decides whether text keeps its line breaks when the font is swapped. Lunasima Regular has identical widths.

Closest open fonts to Lucida Grande

Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.

  1. Lunasima Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)
  2. Kufam Regularloosely similar widths (39.4 units)
  3. Kufam Mediumloosely similar widths (39.7 units)
  4. Lunasima Boldloosely similar widths (40.8 units)
  5. IBM Plex Sans JP Regularloosely similar widths (43.4 units)
  6. IBM Plex Sans JP Mediumloosely similar widths (43.6 units)
  7. Kufam SemiBoldloosely similar widths (45.1 units)
  8. IBM Plex Sans JP SemiBoldloosely similar widths (45.6 units)
  9. IBM Plex Sans JP Lightloosely similar widths (46.4 units)
  10. Menbere Regularloosely similar widths (46.8 units)

Lucida Grande measured

Average lowercase letter width549.9 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width638.2 units per 1000 em
Word space316.4 units per 1000 em
Digitstabular (every digit is 632.3 units wide, so columns of numbers line up)
Spacingproportional
Width of i compared with m31%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
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Editing a PDF that uses Lucida Grande

Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. Lucida Grande is not freely available, so MythosPDF first uses every letter already embedded in your PDF. If a new letter is missing, it asks before using the closest open font listed here, and tells you which one it used.

Questions people ask

+What is the best free alternative to Lucida Grande?

By measured letter widths, Lunasima Regular: identical letter widths (0 units per 1000 em). Identical widths mean a document keeps exactly the same line breaks.

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Lucida Grande without having it installed?

Yes. Where a PDF lacks a letter, MythosPDF can use a font with identical widths, so the layout does not move, and it tells you it did.

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