Name | Courier New |
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Characteristics | Monospaced, meaning all characters have the same width. Rectangular dots over the lowercase “i” and “j”. Single story lowercase “g”. |
History | Courier is a monospaced slab serif typeface designed to resemble the output from a strike-on typewriter. The typeface was designed by Howard “Bud” Kettler in 1955, and it was later redrawn by Adrian Frutiger for the IBM Selectric Composer series of electric typewriters. Although the design of the original Courier typeface was commissioned by IBM, they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. Courier New is a version of Courier introduced with Windows 3.1. |
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