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Encyclopedia > Courier (font)

Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. The font was created by Howard Kettler. The design of the original Courier New typeface was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for use in typewriters, but they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it was soon a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. As a monospaced font, it has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned. It has also become an industry standard for all screenplays to be written in 12 pt Courier or a close variant. In typography, a typeface is a co-ordinated set of character designs, which usually comprises an alphabet of letters, a set of numerals and a set of punctuation marks. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of character designs. ... This Smith Premier typewriter, purchased around the end of the 19th century, was found abandoned in the Bodie ghost town. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of character designs. ... // Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the height of the baby-boom from returning... International Business Machines Corporation (IBM, or colloquially, Big Blue) NYSE: IBM (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since 1888) is headquartered in Armonk, NY, USA. The company manufactures and sells computer hardware, software, and services. ... This Smith Premier typewriter, purchased around the end of the 19th century, was found abandoned in the Bodie ghost town. ... A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. ... A point is a unit of measure in typography. ...


12 point Courier New was also the US State Department's standard typeface until January 2004, when it was replaced with 14 point Times New Roman. Reasons for the change included the desire for a more "modern" and legible font. A point is a unit of measure in typography. ... The United States Department of State, often referred to as the State Department, is the Cabinet-level foreign affairs agency of the United States government, equivalent to foreign ministries in other countries. ... In typography, a typeface consists of a co-ordinated set of character designs. ... 2004(MMIV) is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The word point can refer to: a location in physical space a unit of angular measurement; see navigation point is a typographic unit of measure in typography equal inch or sometimes approximated as inch; on computer displays it should be equal to point in typography if the correct display resolution... Times New Roman is a serif typeface, developed for The Times (London) newspaper in the early 1930s, designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent, and produced by the Monotype Corporation. ...

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Sample of the Courier typeface

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Extended Latin: ÅÄÆĂÂĘÎÖŐØŞŢŰ åäæăâęîöőøßşţű Western numerals: 1234567890
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Cyrillic: Кириллица. Greek: Ελληνικά.
IPA: /ɪgˈzɑːmpəl əv aɪpiːˈeɪ tɹɑːnˈskɹɪpʃən/.
Arabic: العربية. Hebrew: עברית.
这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē Hànzì. Japanese: にほんご. Korean: 한글.
Thai: ภาษาไทย Khmer: កខ.

Using lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a logo guidelines document. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... Arabic numerals (also called Hindu numerals or Indian numerals ) are the most common set of symbols used to represent numbers. ... The phrase The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog or A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was frequently used to test typewriters, because it is a coherent, short pangram. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The three-letter acronym IPA can stand for any of the following (listed in alphabetical order): Independent Pilots Association India Pale Ale Institute of Public Affairs Institute for Propaganda Analysis International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... 漢字 in Traditional Chinese and other languages. ... The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog translated into Khmer. ...

Sample of the Courier New typeface

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Extended Latin: ÅÄÆĂÂĘÎÖŐØŞŢŰ åäæăâęîöőøßşţű Western numerals: 1234567890
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
Cyrillic: Кириллица. Greek: Ελληνικά.
IPA: /ɪgˈzɑːmpəl əv aɪpiːˈeɪ tɹɑːnˈskɹɪpʃən/.
Arabic: العربية. Hebrew: עברית.
这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē Hànzì. Japanese: にほんご. Korean: 한글.
Thai: ภาษาไทย Khmer: កខ.

Using lorem ipsum to focus attention on graphic elements in a logo guidelines document. ... In computing, Unicode provides an international standard which has the goal of providing the means to encode the text of every document people want to store on computers. ... Arabic numerals (also called Hindu numerals or Indian numerals ) are the most common set of symbols used to represent numbers. ... The phrase The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog or A quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog was frequently used to test typewriters, because it is a coherent, short pangram. ... The Cyrillic alphabet (or azbuka, from the old name of the first letters) is an alphabet used to write six natural Slavic languages (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Macedonian, Russian, Serbian, and Ukrainian) and many other languages of the former Soviet Union, Asia and Eastern Europe. ... The three-letter acronym IPA can stand for any of the following (listed in alphabetical order): Independent Pilots Association India Pale Ale Institute of Public Affairs Institute for Propaganda Analysis International Phonetic Alphabet. ... The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing the Arabic language. ... Note: This article contains special characters. ... 漢字 in Traditional Chinese and other languages. ... The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog translated into Khmer. ...

In ASCII Art

Courier is commonly used in ASCII art because it is a monospace font (which makes it easy to use) and is available almost universally. "Solid-style" ASCII art uses the darkness/lightness of each character to portray an object, which can be quantified in pixels (here in pt. 12): ASCII art, an artistic medium relying primarily on computers for presentation, consists of pictures pieced together from characters (preferably from the 95 printable characters defined by ASCII). ...

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
25 29 21 26 29 25 27 31 18 19 28 20 36 24 20 25 28 30 28 24 27 22 30 26 23 24
` 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - = ~ ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ +
2 16 19 20 23 23 23 16 26 23 24 6 12 9 9 36 30 26 20 7 24 21 13 13 9 13
[ ] ; ' , . / { } | : " < > ?
17 17 8 11 4 7 4 8 16 16 13 8 8 9 9 13

See also

Web core fonts was a project started by Microsoft back in 1996, but later terminated (on August 2002). ...

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Goodbye to the Courier font? - By Tom Vanderbilt - Slate Magazine (1251 words)
Courier 12 had been put to pasture after several decades of honorable service, like an aging, elegant diplomat whose crisp, cream-colored linen suit and genteel demeanor now seem winningly old-fashioned.
Courier New 12, created in 1955 by IBM, is perhaps the most recognizable typeface of the 20th century—a visual symbol of typewritten bureaucratic anonymity, the widespread dissemination of information (and a classification of documents), stark factuality, and streamlined efficiency.
In technical terms, Courier New, like all typewriter fonts, is a "monospaced" typeface: Each letter takes up the same amount of space on a line, essential for tabular uniformity as well as, say, replacing an "i" with a "w" during the correcting process (no longer an issue, of course).
Courier Font Family (431 words)
Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter.
The design of the original Courier New typeface was commissioned in the 1950s by IBM for use in typewriters, but they did not secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it was soon a standard font used throughout the typewriter industry.
As a monospaced font, it has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned.
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