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Courier is a monospaced slab
Slab Serif
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standard font used throughout the typewriter industry. As a serif typeface designed to monospaced font, it has recently resemble the output from a strike found renewed use in the electronic on typewriter. The typeface was designed by Howard “Bud� Kettler in world in situations where columns of characters must be consistently 1955. The design of the original aligned. It has also become Courier typeface was commissioned an industry standard for all in the 1950s by IBM for use in screenplays to be written in 12 typewriters, but they did not point Courier or a close variant. secure legal exclusivity to the typeface and it soon became a
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