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 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.