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Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984,[1] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996[2][3][4][5] and LPPL in 2009.[6][7][8] In 2017, the font, alongside other Core 35 fonts, has been additionally licensed under the terms of OFL.[9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++. Although not exactly the same, Nimbus Mono has metrics and glyphs that are very similar to Courier and Courier New.
Category | Monospace |
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Designer(s) | URW Studio (Adobe Studio); GPL version published also by Valek Fillipov |
Foundry | URW++ |
Date released | 1984[1] |
It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, free alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Courier). It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.[10][11]