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 protect their rights 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.
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.
Sample
The following paragraph is in Courier or Courier New if the font is available, and if your version of Courier New supports it, Greek, Cyrillic, and IPA characters will display also. If not, a serif font is used:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog. 这是一些汉字。 Zhè shì yì xiē
Hànzì. Example of
IPA transcription: /ɪg'zɑːmpəl əv aɪpiː'eɪ tɹɑːn'skɹɪpʃən/.
Greek: Ελληνικά.
Cyrillic: Кириллица.
Thai: ฟหกดึ้.
Khmer: កខ.
Arabic: العربية.
Scandinavian characters: ÅÄÆÖØ åäæöø.
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):
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See also
External link
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