Courier (font)

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font Courier
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Font designer Howard "Bud" Kettler, Adrian Frutiger
Creation 1955
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Font example for Courier

Courier is a font for typewriters and computer . It was designed by Howard Kettler in 1956 and later refined by Adrian Frutiger for the electric typewriters for IBM . As is common with typewriters, it is a non-proportional font , which means that all letters are of the same width. The strong serifs with which, for example, the empty space at the "I" is filled are characteristic.

Although IBM commissioned the design of the original font, the company did not copyright the font; it is therefore license-free.

Courier is often used as a substitute font if the font actually required is not available on the output device.

Courier is also used in most text editors , as it enables a programmer , for example, to better align the source text to be edited (see indentation style ). It is also widely used as the default font for plain text emails.

Variations

IBM Courier

IBM has made Courier freely available in Postscript Type 1 format . This variant is known as IBM Courier or just Courier and is available under the IBM / MIT X Consortium Courier Typefont license.

Courier New

Courier New is a version of Courier for Microsoft - Windows . The font family includes Courier New, Courier New Bold , Courier New Italic, and Courier New Bold Italic . Courier New has a larger line spacing than Courier. Punctuation marks have been revised to make the period and comma more readable.

Versions

  • Version 1.00 - shipped with Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
  • Version 2.00 ( WGL4 ) - came with Windows 95 and Windows NT 4. This version does not contain the EURO symbol.
  • Version 2.00 (Win ANSI) - This Win-ANSI version of Courier New came with Windows-95.
  • Version 2.01 - This special version of Courier New was only shipped with the beta version of the Windows € 95 update patch .
  • Version 2.45 - This Win ANSI version of Courier New was shipped with the US version of Windows 98.
  • Version 2.50 - was only shipped in the European versions of Windows 98. This version contains the EURO symbol €.
  • Version 2.55 - This WGL4 version of Courier New was first shipped with the final Windows 95 euro update on November 4, 1998. This version also contains the EURO symbol €.

From version 2.76 the font contains the Hebrew and Arabic characters. The shape of the Arabic glyphs is similar to that in Times New Roman .

Courier New is now version 5.00 and contains more than 3100 glyphs with over 2700 characters per font .

Courier Final Draft

Courier Final Draft is a version with a slightly different spacing of the characters and a bolder typeface than Courier New to simulate typewriter ink. Courier Final Draft is included with popular script software. The font is proportioned in such a way that 55 lines per page can be written without having to pay attention to the formatting. The reason for this is that a DIN A4 page written in this way corresponds to approximately one minute of film.

Font samples of the digital versions

Courier (IBM version)

The IBM version of Courier has been published as a PostScript font .

Courier (bitstream version)

The bitstream version of the Courier is included in Mac OS X and many Linux distributions .

Courier (Monotype version)

The Monotype version named Courier New is in Windows and Mac OS X included.

Courier (Adobe version)

The Adobe version with the name Courier Std is supplied with the Adobe Reader as a replacement for the PostScript Courier fonts. Each font contains 374 glyphs.

Courier Final Draft

The Courier Final Draft was created by Vintage Type in 2009 and shipped with the Final Draft, Inc. script program .

Courier Screenplay

The Courier Screenplay is supplied with the script program Fade In .

Courier Prime

The Courier Prime was created by Alan Dague-Greene in 2013 and is available for free via Quote-Unquote Apps .

The Dark Courier was developed by Hewlett-Packard in 1997 and published in 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Microsoft website . Overview of Courier New in the individual Windows versions.
  2. ↑ Download the updated Courier Final Draft font . Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  3. ↑ Downloads . In: Fade In Professional Screenwriting Software . Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  4. ^ John August: Introducing Courier Prime . In: John August . January 28, 2013. Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Courier Prime . In: Quote-Unquote Apps . Retrieved July 22, 2016.
  6. ↑ Dark Courier True Type Font . In: HP Support Center . January 18, 2001. Archived from the original on July 22, 2016. Retrieved on July 22, 2016.