Courier

Designed by Howard Kettler Purpose: For tabular, materials, technical, documentation, and word processing For newsletters, reports, and proposals Though the typewriter is no longer synonymous with office culture, the typewriter style font Courier remains a viable typeface for advertisements in the twenty-first century. IMB first commissioned Howard Kettler to design the face for use in typewriters in the 1950s. The Hollywood standard for all screenplays, Courier s digital version recollects the vernacular of the era of the manual typewriter. The font was also the U.S. State Department s standard typeface until January 2004, when it was replaced with Times New Roman. As a monospaced font, Courier has recently found renewed use in the electronic world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently aligned.