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Courier PT

ParaType · Tagir Safayev, Alexander Tarbeev · 1990

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Courier PT specimen from ParaType

A 1990 ParaType adaptation of Howard Kettler's IBM Courier (1956), extended with Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian scripts and a decorative Rough variant added in 1997.

About

Tagir Safayev's adaptation broadens the original Courier's script coverage to include Cyrillic, Greek, Armenian, Georgian and Old Slavonic, making it a practical monospaced workhorse for multilingual technical settings. Alexander Tarbeev contributed the Rough styles in 1997, introducing a distressed texture to the standard and bold weights. Six styles in total span Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic, Rough Regular and Rough Bold.

Classification

A monospaced typewriter-style face derived from Howard Kettler's Courier (IBM, 1956), with fixed-pitch letterforms and slab serifs characteristic of typewriter typography.

Weights

RegularBold

Family

Courier PT Rough

Languages

LatinCyrillicGreekArmenianGeorgianOld Church Slavonic

Tags

monospacedtypewritercouriercyrillictechnicalroughrevivalslab

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