Nimbus Mono L

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.

Nimbus Mono

Category	Monospace
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]

External links

• Tex Gyre Cursor is a derivative of Nimbus Mono L with additional glyphs.

See also

• Nimbus Sans L
• Nimbus Roman No9 L
• Free software Unicode typefaces