Howard G. Bud Kettler

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Howard G. Bud Kettler Designer from Lexington, KY, b. 1919, d. 1999. He was most famous for creating Courier for IBM in 1955. Some sources claim that he created the monospaced Prestige Elite (1953; see here) for the IBM Selectric typewriters. But evidence points more in the direction of Clayton Smith. URW has a digital version of Prestige Elite. Courier has seen many digital implementations: URW Nimbus Mono L (free). TeXGyre Cursor (2007). Also free. Courier 10 Pitch. A digital family by Bitstream. See also Courier Ten, which is Courier 10 Pitch BT, offered in OpenType format as well as Type 1 for use with LaTeX. Package maintained by Daniel Benjamin Miller starting in 2020. The Apple system font Courier is a 1990 typeface by Bitstream. Kettler (2002). By Eric Olson, Priocess Type Foundry. Courier New (2000). 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] Klingspor Museum page MyFonts search Monotype search Fontspring search Google search INTERNAL LINKS Type designers ⦿ Type designers ⦿ Monospaced fonts ⦿ Typewriter fonts ⦿ Type scene in Kentucky ⦿ Courier and derived typefaces ⦿