How can I use the Lucida Grande font in Windows?

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2013-09
  • vins

    I'm a Windows user but I want to use the Lucida Grande font in Notepad++ and Eclipse IDE.

    I didn't find that font listed for Notepad++ when I tried to change the font in the style configurator.

    Does anyone know any tweaks to make this happen?

    • Answers
  • Indrek

    The reason you can't find Lucida Grande among your installed fonts is that it doesn't come with Windows. If you want to use it, you have several options:

    • Buy the font, as noted in RedGrittyBrick's answer The font doesn't seem to be available for purchase.

    • The font was also supposedly available with Safari for Windows, but Apple has since discontinued that. An archived version of Safari 3 along with instructions to extract the font is available here.

    • You can use Lucida Sans Unicode instead, which does come with Windows and is almost identical to Lucida Grande.

    • A quick search online for "lucida grande" provides a number of places where you can just download it. I won't list them since I'm not sure about their legality, plus it's not like they're hard to find.

  • RedGrittyBrick

    You can buy various Lucida fonts but exclusive rights to Lucida Grande are owned by Apple. Lucida Grande is copyright by the font designers Bigelow and Holmes but is not available for sale.


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  • Peter Mortensen

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  • s.Daniel

    Ctrl and NUMPAD +/NUMPAD - or mouse wheel to zoom in/out

    Edit: Or to achieve exactly what you asked for...

    Settings > Style Configurator. Under Font Style you can set the font and size

  • Community

    Open menu Settings/Style Configurator. Then with the default theme "Default (styles.xml)" and default language "Global Styles", change the font name and font size for style "Default Style" (the default, style "Global override" will not cut it).

    If a document is already open then the display will change immediately as the font name and font size is changed - nice touch! Press the "Save & Close" button to keep the new settings.

    Note that in Notepad++ 6.0, you will also need to check the enable global font and enable global font size check boxes.

  • Tom Wijsman

    Alternatively, hold Ctrl and use the scroll wheel of your mouse.

  • Diago

    Fonts and styles can be changed in the Style Configurator.

    • Settings
    • Style Configurator
  • none

    With 5.9.4 I have found that the global override does cut it, as zooming seems to influence global and language-specific font settings differently so that whitespace has different sizes (Tabs don't line up with different zoom levels). The font size did not seem to change either..

  • athahernadeem

    (Notepad++ 6.1.1)

    I'm not sure about you, but to me this feature should be in Preferences. I totally missed it when it was right underneath it :p.

    Anyway, you could kill two birds with one stone by changing the theme.

    Change font & Chose a dark background:

    1. Go to Settings on the top menu
    2. Chose Style Configurator...
    3. At the top it's the theme selector Select theme

    Notepad++ has many themes to choose from, so if you're one of those that likes to code on a dark background with a san-serif font the Ruby Blue theme is a good choice, it works great for me.

    My 2¢.

  • Gaurav

    Ctrl + F12 will give you all authorities to change the appearance, background, foreground, fonts etc. !