Courier Prime

Monospace · by Alan Dague-Greene · 4 styles

Download

CourierPrime.zip · 303 KB · 5 files including OFL.txt

Typography profile

Weights
400 and 700
Italics
Every weight
Scripts
Latin (incl. Extended)
Best for
  • Screenplays and manuscripts
  • Aligned tables and figures
Consider alternatives for
  • Hierarchies that need several weights
Characteristics
  • Monospaced
  • Typewriter
  • Case-sensitive forms

Styles

32px

  1. Courier Prime Regular 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  2. Courier Prime Regular 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  3. Courier Prime Italic 400 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  4. Courier Prime Italic 400 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  5. Courier Prime Bold 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  6. Courier Prime Bold 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  7. Courier Prime Bold Italic 700 at 18px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

  8. Courier Prime Bold Italic 700 at 32px

    The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

BPOZZ Design Note

Courier Prime is for documents set entirely in one monospace, as screenplays are, more than for code snippets inside proportional text. Its bold is darker and its italic more cursive than Courier's, so a manuscript gets real emphasis without leaving the typewriter voice.

BPOZZ editorial guidance for designers.

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About Courier Prime

About
A refined take on the classic typewriter monospace, tuned for screenplays and manuscripts. Includes regular, italic, bold and bold italic.
Designer
Alan Dague-Greene
Version
3.018
Category
Monospace
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1

You may use, embed, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial projects. The font files may not be sold on their own. Read the full license (OFL.txt).

Copyright 2015 The Courier Prime Project Authors (https://github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrime).

Source
Google Fonts

Download files taken unmodified from the google/fonts repository; the WOFF2 files used for the previews on this page are compressed from them. Added to Google Fonts 5 Dec 2019.

Upstream project: github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrime.

Available styles
  • Regular 400
  • Italic 400
  • Bold 700
  • Bold Italic 700
Available formats
  • TTF download
  • WOFF2 web preview
Character sets
Latin, Latin Extended