Finally, we were motivated by the artistic enjoyment to be derived from designing the wide variety of glyphs found in the Unicode standard. It is an opportunity to contemplate the past, and take part in the future development, of thousands of abstract graphical forms that have been developed through several millennia by generations of scribes in different civilizations.

—Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes, "The design of a Unicode font."

The Unicode font in question is Lucida Grande, a handsome and unfussy font that comes with MacOS X. It boasts more than 1700 glyphs.