I dont think ’Courier’ was ever thought of not being monospaced. Soo, I dont see any sense, at all, in ’dekerning’ ’Courier’ to loose the monospacing. :)

( I think you basically have two options: Using the original monospaced version of ’Courier’ or choosing / considering a different typeface, altogether. )

Dav

Rekerning wouldn’t change much, the width of the letters would still stay the same…

Why Courier? Why not monospaced?

Spiekermann has made types that have the feel of serif
monospaced fonts (both in forms and spacing) without
actually being monospaced.

hhp

It’s not Courier, but FF Letter Gothic is does what you’re thinking.

…and I think it comes bundled with InDesign. It’s used in the text edit mode by default.

You could also use Typewriter

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/urw/typewriter/

I think Ben meant to link to FF Letter Gothic Text which is not monospaced.

Hrant is referring to ITC Officina Serif and FF Info Office.

Yes, indeed.

Will American Typewriter do the job?

> Will American Typewriter do the job?

That’s quite displayish, isn’t it?

Hi, thanks for all the advice!

Is it possible to use non system fonts in Word and Powerpoint and retain portability between different platforms and versions? I know there is the embed font feature but as far as I know it dosnt work very well and there is always the problem of having the right font setup on everybodys machine if they want to create a document using it....

Ive read one solution is to create pdfs of docs when sending to external people such as clients. Just wandering what everybody else does when they have to choose a font for clients to use?

>That’s quite displayish, isn’t it?

Well, it is used pretty regularly to print excerpts of movie scripts in books, or whole scripts. Actual scripts have to be in Courier, because then they are approximately one minute per page, which is convenient for comparison and production. But produced for reading, American Typewriter, which is proportionally spaced, is more readable.

>portability between different platforms and versions?

American Typewriter comes in an Open type version, so yes.

Your work group would all need it on their machines for them to edit documents. Yes, PDFs work fine for distribution, but they won’t be editable, I believe.

I know some programmers and some lawyers use Courier. And I don’t really know why lawyers want to use it.

There are really better options for almost every purpose, though.

> But produced for reading, American Typewriter, which is proportionally spaced, is more readable.

And it comes in several weights, and the light is “not as annoying”.

Yes, sir. I do have American Typewriter, too. It’s just not my first choice for setting long texts. And I too think the light is “not as annoying”. But a bit annoying still.

American Typewriter’s vertical proportions restrict to
around 6-7 point (and you’d have to track it looser).
Or display.

hhp