# Courier Prime font

> A monospaced typewriter face made for screenplays, in Regular and Bold with cursive italics.

Courier Prime is a monospaced typeface by Alan Dague-Greene for Quote-Unquote Apps, a new take on Courier made specifically for screenplays. Courier Prime has four styles: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic. Courier Prime is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and suits scripts, manuscripts and typewriter-style documents.

## Facts

- Classification: [Monospace](https://trendhub.net/fonts/category/monospace)
- Designed by: Alan Dague-Greene
- License: SIL Open Font License 1.1 (https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/)
- Styles: 4 (Regular 400, Bold 700; with italics)
- Variable font: No
- Glyphs: 401
- Character sets: latin, latin-ext
- Last updated: 2025-09-11
- Official source: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Courier+Prime
- Page: https://trendhub.net/fonts/courier-prime
- Tagged for: Body text, Editorial, Code

## 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.

## License

SIL Open Font License 1.1. Copyright 2015 The Courier Prime Project Authors (https://github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrime).

Allowed:
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.

Conditions:
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.

Summary only, not legal advice. Full text: https://openfontlicense.org/open-font-license-official-text/

## Where it 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.

## 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

### Is Courier Prime free for commercial use?

Yes. Courier Prime is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, so it may be used in personal and commercial work, modified and redistributed. It cannot be sold on its own, and modified versions keep the same license.

### Who designed Courier Prime?

Courier Prime is credited to Alan Dague-Greene and Quote-Unquote Apps. It is a reworking of Courier, which Howard Kettler designed in 1956.

### How many weights does Courier Prime have?

Courier Prime has two weights, Regular 400 and Bold 700, each with an italic, for four styles.

### Is Courier Prime monospaced?

Yes. Courier Prime is a monospaced family: every character has the same width.

### Which languages does Courier Prime support?

Courier Prime includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as French, German, Spanish, Turkish, Polish and Romanian.

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