It seems Gauss samples already started to float around, so some more info on Palida is not a surprise anymore.
Palida Narrow header info:
'head' Table - Font Header
Size = 54 bytes (expecting 54 bytes)
'head' version: 1.0
fontRevision: 1.1
checkSumAdjustment: 0xC5C64B82
magicNumber: 0x5F0F3CF5
flags: 0x001B- baseline(y)=0 - lsb(x)=0 - int ppem - nonlin aw
unitsPerEm: 2048
created: Fri Jan 28 21:48:24 2000
modified: Mon Dec 19 05:37:00 2011
xMin: -579
yMin: -804
xMax: 2298
yMax: 2033
macStyle bits: 0x0000
lowestRecPPEM: 12
fontDirectionHint: 1
indexToLocFormat: 0
glyphDataFormat: 0
Lucida Bright Regular header info:
'head' Table - Font Header
Size = 54 bytes (expecting 54 bytes)
'head' version: 1.0
fontRevision: 1.1
checkSumAdjustment: 0x8A94C916
magicNumber: 0x5F0F3CF5
flags: 0x001B- baseline(y)=0 - lsb(x)=0 - int ppem - nonlin aw
unitsPerEm: 2048
created: Fri Jan 28 19:13:11 2000
modified: Tue Mar 13 23:02:32 2001
xMin: -550
yMin: -1530
xMax: 3314
yMax: 2419
macStyle bits: 0x0000
lowestRecPPEM: 12
fontDirectionHint: 1
indexToLocFormat: 1
glyphDataFormat: 0
You can see the similarity in creation date.
The interesting thing is that Palida has 457 glyphs:
'maxp' Table - Maximum Profile
Size = 32 bytes (expecting 32 bytes)
'maxp' version: 1.0
numGlyphs: 457
from which some special characters are unusual
Glyf 440 -> PSGlyf Name # 192, name= 'dcaron1'
Glyf 441 -> PSGlyf Name # 193, name= 'Gcedilla1'
Glyf 442 -> PSGlyf Name # 194, name= 'gcedilla1'
Glyf 443 -> PSGlyf Name # 195, name= 'Kcedilla1'
Glyf 444 -> PSGlyf Name # 196, name= 'kcedilla1'
Glyf 445 -> PSGlyf Name # 197, name= 'Lcedilla1'
Glyf 446 -> PSGlyf Name # 198, name= 'lcedilla1'
Glyf 447 -> PSGlyf Name # 199, name= 'Lcaron1'
Glyf 448 -> PSGlyf Name # 200, name= 'lcaron1'
Glyf 449 -> PSGlyf Name # 201, name= 'Ncedilla1'
Glyf 450 -> PSGlyf Name # 202, name= 'ncedilla1'
Glyf 451 -> PSGlyf Name # 203, name= 'Rcedilla1'
Glyf 452 -> PSGlyf Name # 204, name= 'rcedilla1'
Or the fact the physics and math is so important that first glyphs are micro and Ohm.
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PSGlyf Name # 1: micro
PSGlyf Name # 2: Ohm
PSGlyf Name # 3: increment
PSGlyf Name # 4: bulletmath
PSGlyf Name # 5: overscore
PSGlyf Name # 6: dmacron
One of the interesting glyphs is U+0104 also called Aogonek. First of all it exists mostly in CE fonts, second, it is a bit different from Lucida samples we checked. Check it yourself, too!