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Courier

Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed in the mid-1950s by Howard "Bud" Kettler for IBM. The Courier name and design concept are in the public domain.

About Courier

Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed in the mid-1950s by Howard "Bud" Kettler for IBM. The Courier name and design concept are in the public domain. Courier has been adapted for use as a computer font, and versions of it are installed on most desktop computers.

From the Wikipedia article “Courier (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Using Courier in a book

Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.

Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.

Free alternatives on Google Fonts

Courier Prime MonospaceAlan Dague-Greene

Sources & data

More other typefaces

Vercetti Regular 2022 Helvetica 1957 Verdana 1996 Garamond 1530 Calibri 2002 Frutiger 1975 Tahoma 1994 Futura 1927

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