Designer from Lexington, KY, (1919-1999), most famous for creating Courier for IBM in 1955. He also created the monospaced Prestige Elite (1953; see here) for the IBM Selectric typewriters. URW has a digital version. Blurb in German.

Courier has seen many digital implementations. Excellent free ones include URW Nimbus Mono L and TeXGyre Cursor (2007). Courier 10 Pitch is a digital family by Bitstream. The Apple system font Courier is a 1990 typeface by Bitstream. Kettler (2002) is by Eric Olson. Courier New (2000) is published by Microsoft, with the help of Adrian Frutiger. The free Courier Prime family by Alan Dague Greene (2013) was specially designed for screenwriters.

A student in Uberlandia, Brazil, Patrick Gouvea, created a great letter-based poster of a typewriter, and dedicated it to Kettler.

FontShop link. Klingspor link.

View some digital typefaces created by or related to Howard Kettler.

EXTERNAL LINKS
Howard G. Bud Kettler
 [Designer info]
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INTERNAL LINKS
Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Type scene in Kentucky ⦿ Courier and derived typefaces ⦿

Luc Devroye ⦿ School of Computer Science ⦿ McGill University Montreal, Canada H3A 2K6 ⦿ lucdevroye@gmail.com ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org ⦿ http://luc.devroye.org/fonts.html