Marilyn Langfeld wrote:
 
> I add Lucida (forget now if it's Grande or not) which I've heard is
> prevalent on Unix machines.

I don't believe any Lucida proportional font is particularly common on
recent Linux distros. I suspect most Lucidas on Linux are either
ttf shares from Windows, serif, monospace, and/or old bitmapped fonts.
http://www.codestyle.org/css/font-family/sampler-UnixResults.shtml
indicates the contrary, but I believe there's something that site cannot
account for skewing the results, possibly people responding to the
survey as Unix actually running multiboot systems using Windows fonts.
On my 3 newest Linux systems, running SuSE 9.2, Fedora Core 3, and
Mandrake 2005, and the previous Linux versions they replaced, there were
no such Lucidas installed with the OS and its bundled software. The only
proportional sans Lucidas on any of those 3 of mine are Windows' Lucida
Sans Unicode.

OTOH, all of them were equipped with the Bitstream Vera series of fonts
out of the box.

AFAIK, Lucida Grande is a Mac font never found on any fresh Linux or
Windows system.
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