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Courier
Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed in the mid-1950s by Howard "Bud" Kettler (1919–1999) 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 (1919–1999) 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
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q515301 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).