monospace-font-list.md

The Monospace Typeface List

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14t6XU4H9fcrSUAIa3Pa3LL-BMZ88HonD3d-FI3J45z8/edit#gid=60842788

The Couriers

There are sixty five krillion implementations of IBM's public domain(?) Courier typeface. This may or may not be a complete list of them.

• IBM Courier
  • ctan: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/obsolete/fonts/psfonts/ibm/courier (Type 1)
• Courier New
  • Courier New is one of Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web.
• Courier Prime
  • variants:
    • Courier Prime
      • git: https://github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrime
    • Courier Prime Code
      • based on: Courier Prime Sans
      • git: https://github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrimeCode
    • Courier Prime Sans
      • git: https://github.com/quoteunquoteapps/CourierPrimeSans
    • third party medium & semi-bold
  • google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Courier+Prime
  • website: https://quoteunquoteapps.com/courierprime/
  • notes:
    • It even has italics!
  • license: SIL OFL 1.1
• Courier Screenplay
  • download: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/CourierScreenplay.zip
  • via: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts-1.html
• Courier Final Draft
  • mentioned in: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/CourierFonts.pdf
• Dark Courier
  • download: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/DarkCourier.zip
  • via: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts-1.html
  • foundry: Hewlett-Packard
• Courier 10 Pitch BT
  • foundry: Bitstream
  • download: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/Courier10BT.zip
  • via: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts-1.html
• Courier Code
  • based on: Courier 10 Pitch BT, with a dotted zero and a more distinguishable lowercase L.
  • luc devroye: http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-75638.html
  • fontlibrary: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/courier-code
• Courier Standard
  • distributed with Adobe Reader 6
• Nimbus Mono L
  • foundry: URW++
  • one of the Ghostscript fonts
• TeX Gyre Cursor
  • based on: Nimbus Mono L
• FreeMono
  • based on: Nimbus Mono L
• EF Courier B
  • fonts.com: https://www.fonts.com/font/elsner-flake/ef-courier-b
  • foundry: Elsner+Flake
  • buy: https://www.fonts4ever.com/search_result_details.php?f_shops_id=2&selectedFamilyID=262&f_item_name=Courier%20B
• Courier Line Draw
  • myfonts: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/courier-line-draw-font-monotype-imaging
  • foundry: Monotype Imaging
• Courier M
  • myfonts: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/courier-font-urw
  • foundry: URW
• Courier MM Screenwriter
  • bundled with Movie Magic Screenwriter 6
  • apparently based on Courier 10 BT.
  • mentioned: http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/CourierFonts.pdf
• Courier (ParaType)
  • myfonts: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/courier-font-paratype
  • foundry: Paratype
• Courier PS
  • linotype.com: https://www.linotype.com/148045/courier-ps-family.html
  • foundry: Mojnotype
• Courier Sans Mono
  • website: https://lineto.com/typefaces/courier-sans-mono
  • foundry: Lineto
• Courier SB
  • myfonts: https://www.myfonts.com/collections/courier-sb-font-scangraphic-digital-type-collection
  • foundry: Scangraphic Digital Type Collection
• Average Mono
  • about: an average of thirteen different derivatives of Courier
  • designer: Richard Alexander Hall
  • license: GPL
  • fontlibrary: https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/average-mono

Takes on Courier

• LL Courier Sans, a non-monspace design inspired by Courier
  • foundry: Lineto

About Courier, generally:

• Between the Lines: The Story of Courier
• designer: Howard "Bud" Kettler
• Redrawn by Adrian Frutiger for Selectric golfballs.
• http://www.rolandstroud.com/Fonts/CourierFonts.pdf

Almost Monospace

• Amiri Typewriter
  • git: https://github.com/aliftype/amiri-typewriter
  • almost monospace; Arabic

Grungy Old Typewriter Fonts

• Trixie
• GNU Typewriter
• Enigma Typewriter (not actually monospace)
  • via: https://www.designbombs.com/best-monospaced-fonts/

Font Tweakers

• Nerd Fonts
  • website: https://www.nerdfonts.com/
• Codeface
  • git: https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface
• Powerline Fonts
  • git: https://github.com/powerline/fonts
  • for: Powerline
    • git: https://github.com/powerline/powerline
    • website: https://powerline.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
• Bront (aggregator)
  • https://github.com/chrismwendt/bront

Sources

• https://hackingcpp.com/dev/coding_fonts.html
• CodingFont
  • foundry: Typogram
  • website: https://www.codingfont.com/
• https://github.com/adobe-fonts
• https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Fonts
• http://luc.devroye.org/
• bunch of APL fonts: https://aplwiki.com/wiki/Fonts
  • downloads: http://archive.vector.org.uk/resource/index.htm

Collections of Fonts

• X.org Bitmap Fonts
  • third party: https://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/X-Window-System-fonts.html
  • third party conversions and whatnots:
    • https://github.com/masaeedu/bitmap-fonts
    • https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html

Miscellany

• Electronic Font Open Laboratory

TODO

• https://ctan.org/pkg/cm-super
• https://ctan.org/pkg/luximono
• https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Excalibur-Monospace-Regular scroll down to similar fonts
• https://www.kreativekorp.com/software/fonts/fairfax/ look at all the other fonts and make sure they're listed in here.
• https://www.fonts.com/font/ingrimayne-type has numerous fonts
• http://www.ingrimayne.com/fonts2/typewriter.htm contains the ones that are monospace.
• words for distressed:
  • photocopied
  • misprinted
  • aged
  • rough
  • grungy