Courier New font family
Overview
Designed as a typewriter face for IBM, Courier was re drawn by Adrian Frutiger for IBM Selectric series. A typical fixed pitch design, monotone in weight and slab serif in concept. Used to emulate typewriter output for reports, tabular work and technical documentation.
Courier New version history Version 2.55 - This WGL4 version of Courier New was first supplied with the Final Windows 95 euro update that shipped on 4 November 1998. This version contains the euro. Version 2.50 - This version of Courier New is supplied with European versions of Windows 98. North American users can add it by installing multilanguage support. This version contains the euro. Version 2.45 - This Win ANSI version of Courier New is supplied with the US version of Windows 98. Version 2.01 - This special version of Courier New is only supplied with the beta version of the Windows 95 euro update patch. Version 2.00 (Win ANSI) - This Win ANSI version of Courier New is supplied with Windows 95. Version 2.00 (WGL4) - This WGL4 version of Courier New is supplied with Windows 95 and Windows NT4. This version does not contain the euro. Version 1.00 - This version was supplied with Windows 3.1 and Windows for Workgroups 3.11.
| Description | |
|---|---|
| File name | Cour.ttf Courbd.ttf Courbi.ttf Couri.ttf |
| Styles & Weights | Courier New Courier New Bold Courier New Bold Italic Courier New Italic |
| Designers | Howard Kettler |
| Copyright | © 2017 The Monotype Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Hebrew OpenType Layout logic copyright © 2003 & 2007, Ralph Hancock & John Hudson. This layout logic for Biblical Hebrew is open source software under the MIT License; see embedded license description for details. |
| Font vendor | Agfa Monotype Corporation |
| Script Tags | dlng:'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Latn' slng:'Arab', 'Armn', 'Cyrl', 'Grek', 'Hebr', 'Latn' |
| Code pages | 1252 Latin 1 1250 Latin 2: Eastern Europe 1251 Cyrillic 1253 Greek 1254 Turkish 1255 Hebrew 1256 Arabic 1257 Windows Baltic 1258 Vietnamese OEM OEM Character Set 869 IBM Greek 866 MS-DOS Russian 865 MS-DOS Nordic 864 Arabic 863 MS-DOS Canadian French 862 Hebrew 861 MS-DOS Icelandic 860 MS-DOS Portuguese 857 IBM Turkish 855 IBM Cyrillic; primarily Russian 852 Latin 2 775 MS-DOS Baltic 737 Greek; former 437 G 708 Arabic; ASMO 708 850 WE/Latin 1 437 US |
| Fixed pitch | True |
Licensing and redistribution info
- Font redistribution FAQ for Windows
- License Microsoft fonts for enterprises, web developers, for hardware & software redistribution or server installations
Products that supply this font
| Product name | Font version |
|---|---|
| Windows 11 | See the Windows 11 page. |
| Windows 10 | See the Windows 10 page. |
| Windows 8.1 | See the Windows 8.1 page. |
| Windows 8 | See the Windows 8 page. |
| Windows 7 | See the Windows 7 page. |
| Windows Vista | 5.00 |
| Windows XP SP2 | 2.90 |
| Windows XP | 2.90 |
| Windows 2000 | 2.76 |
| Windows 98 Second Edition | 2.76 |
| Windows 98 | 2.50 |
| Windows 95 | 2.00 |
| Windows 3.1 | 1.00 |
| Windows Server 2008 | 5.00 |
| Windows Server 2003 | 2.90 |
| Windows NT Terminal Server 4.0 | 2.00 |
| Windows NT Workstation 4.0 SP4 | 2.50 |
| Windows NT Workstation 4.0 | 2.00 |
| Windows NT Workstation 3.5 | 1.77 |
This typeface is also available within Office applications. For more information visit this page.
Style & weight examples
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