I agree. Lucida is about the nicest sans-serif screen font I've ever used. Helvetica has noted flaws at normal screen resolution. At Retina resolution, typography for the screen starts following same rules as typography for print. Helvetica is not traditionally used for significant amounts of body text in print typography. It is better for titles and signs.
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I hate Helvetica Neue as a desktop font. I'm on an (non-retina screen) iMac and it just looks too thin at times, blurry.
Also, Id suggest waiting a couple days/weeks if you're a Chrome user. Just keeps crashing, every build, even Canary.
I agree. Lucida is about the nicest sans-serif screen font I've ever used. Helvetica has noted flaws at normal screen resolution. At Retina resolution, typography for the screen starts following same rules as typography for print. Helvetica is not traditionally used for significant amounts of body text in print typography. It is better for titles and signs.
They should have used a Humanist sans-serif (https://typekit.com/lists/humanist-sans-serifs), of which Lucida is a good example.
That use case should fit then, shouldn’t it?
UI fonts are not supposed to be used for large blocks of text. UI fonts are used for, well, basically “titles and signs”.
Except that they use it for everything, including mail messages and help texts, some of which are very long.
I did like the kerning on the "i" in "While" better in Helvetica Neue than in Lucida Grande. I agree that the thinness is unpleasant.