Lucida Grande font
Lucida Grande is a humanist sans serif by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, first issued by Bigelow & Holmes in 1999. It comes with macOS; elsewhere it is a paid typeface, sold by Monotype. FontKind hasn’t measured it, so the free fonts below stand beside it by their own description and by class, not by measurement.
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Lunasima
Made to stand in for Lucida Grande in documents · Google Fonts: Lunasima
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Not measured against Lucida Grande: FontKind has no licensed copy of it. “By description” means the free font’s own description names Lucida Grande or its model; “by class”, that Google Fonts gives it the same class. Every one is free for commercial use.
About Lucida Grande
- Designed by
- Charles Bigelow and Kris HolmesSource: Wikipedia: Lucida Grande
- First issued
- Bigelow & Holmes, 1999Source: Wikipedia: Lucida Grande
- Class
- Humanist sans serifSource: Wikipedia: Lucida Grande
- Comes with
- macOS Tahoe: Lucida GrandeSource: Apple: fonts included with macOS Tahoe
- Sold by
- Monotype
- Trademark
- Lucida is a registered trademark of Bigelow & Holmes.Source: Monotype: trademarks
- Also
- It was the font of the Mac’s interface from 2000 to 2014.Source: Wikipedia: Lucida Grande
Read by hand on 1 October 2026 from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), Microsoft’s and Apple’s lists of their fonts, Monotype’s list of its trademarks and the foundries’ and shops’ own pages. The references are linked beside each fact; a page that sells or hands out the font is not, so a fact read only there shows no link.
Lucida® is a trademark of Bigelow & Holmes. FontKind is not affiliated with Bigelow & Holmes, and this page is an independent reference.
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Questions about Lucida Grande
Is Lucida Grande free?
Not to use anywhere you like. It comes with macOS, so a Mac already has it. Anywhere else it needs a licence, sold by Monotype. The free fonts on this page are free for commercial use too, under open licences.
Who designed Lucida Grande?
Lucida Grande was designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, and first issued by Bigelow & Holmes in 1999.
Can I use Lucida Grande in Word, Google Docs or Canva?
In Word on a Mac, yes, as macOS comes with Lucida Grande; on Windows, only after you install a licensed copy. Google Docs adds fonts from Google Fonts, and Lucida Grande isn’t one of them; of the free fonts on this page, Lunasima, Lato and Fira Sans are there, under More fonts. Canva publishes no list of its fonts: search its font menu, or, with Canva Pro, upload a font whose licence allows it.
What is the closest free alternative to Lucida Grande?
FontKind hasn’t measured Lucida Grande: it has no licensed copy of it, so this page doesn’t rank free fonts by how close they come. The free fonts whose own descriptions name it, or its model, are Lunasima. Beside them, Lato, Fira Sans and Source Sans 3 are humanist sans serifs in Google Fonts’ own classification, the class FontKind matches to Lucida Grande.