Courier New Fonts

Courier was designed by Howard "Bud" Kettler in 1955 and is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter. The Courier New Font Family was re drawn by Adrian Frutiger for IBM Selectric series. A typical fixed pitch design, monotone in weight and slab serif in concept. The Courier New font Family is used to mimic typewriter output for reports, tabular work and technical documentation.

Courier New Fonts

Courier New Packages

The Courier New font family is a version of Courier introduced with Windows 3.1, which also included raster Courier fonts. The Courier New font family comprises Courier New, Courier New Bold, Courier New Italic, Courier New Bold Italic. Courier New features higher line space than Courier.

Version 2.76 or later includes Hebrew and Arabic glyphs, with most of Arabic added on non-italic fonts. The styling of Arabic glyphs is similar to those found in Times New Roman, but are adjusted to be monospaced.

Courier New has been revised to version 5.00; which includes over 3100 glyphs, covering over 2700 characters per font.

Although the Courier New fonts are produced by Monotype (who also own the Courier trademark and the Courier New copyrights), only Ascender Corporation sells the fonts commercially. The Ascender fonts have 'WGL' at the end of the font name, and cover only the WGL characters. Courier New has no Ogham characters.

Designed as a typewriter face for IBM, Courier New Family was re drawn by Adrian Frutiger for IBM Selectric series. A typical fixed pitch design, monotone in weight and slab serif in concept. Courier  New font family used to imitate typewriter output for reports, tabular work and technical documentation.