Lucida

Article summary

Lucida (pronunciation: ) is an extended family of related typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes and released from 1984 onwards. The family is intended to be extremely legible when printed at small size or displayed on a low-resolution display – hence the name, from 'lucid' (clear or easy to understand). There are many variants of Lucida, including serif (Fax, Bright), sans-serif (Sans, Sans Unicode, Grande, Sans Typewriter) and scripts (Blackletter, Calligraphy, Handwriting). Many are released with other software, most notably Microsoft Office. Bigelow and Holmes, together with the (now defunct) TeX vendor Y&Y, extended the Lucida family with a full set of TeX mathematical symbols, making it one of the few typefaces that provide full-featured text and mathematical typesetting within TeX. Lucida is still licensed commercially through the TUG store as well through their own web store. The fonts are occasionally updated.

Key claims

1. release date: 1984 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. release date: 1992 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. release date: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. release date: 1992 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. release date: 1991 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. release date: 1994 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. release date: 1992 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
8. release date: 2012 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the release date is "1984". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the release date is "1992". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the release date is "2000". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the release date is "1992". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. The record states that the release date is "1991". What evidence would count against this claim?
7. The record states that the release date is "1994". What evidence would count against this claim?
8. The record states that the release date is "1992". What evidence would count against this claim?
9. The record states that the release date is "2012". What evidence would count against this claim?
10. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
11. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360502675