Courier Prime

Try Courier Prime

Weights and styles

• Regular 400Courier Prime Regular Italic
• Bold 700Courier Prime Bold Bold Italic

About Courier Prime

Courier Prime is a monospaced slab-serif family in which every character occupies the same width. It reworks Courier, the typewriter face Howard Kettler designed for IBM in 1956, and was made with screenplays in mind. The official notes list the changes: crisper, less rounded serifs, slightly wider counters, a darker bold and more cursive italics. In the specimen the strokes are even, the serifs are flat slabs with gently rounded ends, and narrow letters such as i, j and l carry wide serifs that fill their fixed cells. The family has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, in four static files. It contains 401 glyphs with Latin and extended Latin subsets. Alan Dague-Greene and Quote-Unquote Apps are named as designers. Courier Prime was added to Google Fonts in 2019 and is published under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

Where Courier Prime works

Screenplays

This is the job the family was drawn for; Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic cover dialogue, emphasis and headings in one face.

Manuscripts and submissions

Fixed-width characters give every line the same character count, the convention typewritten manuscripts follow.

Typewriter-look letters and props

Slab serifs and even strokes reproduce typewritten pages, with a darker Bold for stamped headings.

Plain-text tables and code samples

Equal character widths keep columns and indentation aligned.

Pull quotes with a typed texture

The more cursive italic gives a quotation a different rhythm from the upright.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian

Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Courier Prime

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Courier Prime on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Courier Prime";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CourierPrime-Bold.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Courier Prime";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CourierPrime-BoldItalic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Courier Prime";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CourierPrime-Italic.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Courier Prime";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/CourierPrime-Regular.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Courier Prime", monospace;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Courier Prime with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Courier+Prime:ital,wght@0,400;0,700;1,400;1,700&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Two weights

Courier Prime has Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic. There is no light or medium.

Latin only

Subsets are Latin and extended Latin; Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese are not included.

Four static files

Courier Prime is not a variable font.

FAQs

Collections with Courier Prime

• Typewriter fonts

  Monospaced and slab-serif faces modeled on typewriters, from clean screenplay type to worn, inky letters for documents and props.

Similar fonts

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