Alternative font for Lucida Grande on Linux?

Very good and important point. Helpful in this regard, is the following page, that lists for different fonts Linux alternatives even with pictures of the fonts:

• Linux font equivalents to popular web typefaces

Accordingly, as an alternative to "Lucida Grande", for example, the Linux fonts "Garuda", "Malayalam", "Mukti Narrow" or "Kalimati" can be used.

Just try, what font style best fits to your design and, if necessary, state rather a font too much than too less, because even on Linux systems, there are not always the same fonts available.

Your CSS file might look like this:

font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode"
  "Garuda", "Malayalam", Arial, sans-serif;

First, you note the preferred font, so "Lucida Grande", and then the alternatives in the order, that the best alternative comes first. Last, you should still take "sans-serif" in the list, so that at least another font without serifs can be used in cases when there are no fonts of the list installed on the system at all.
Last update on 2021-04-06 | Created on 2012-05-01