Typeface Design for Courier Recast
Typewriter classic rebuilt as a variable font
Courier Recast is Dalton Maag's reinterpretation of the geometric slab-serif typewriter typeface originally designed by Howard Kettler for IBM in the 1950s. Completed in 2025 by Reiko Hirai, Emanuela Conidi, and Jonny Pinhorn, it updates the monospace format as a variable font with an Italic axis and an unusually extensive Weight axis. Script support spans Latin, Cyrillic, Greek, and Hebrew, covering over 860 languages.
Set in Courier Recast
Insights
- Hebrew is included among the four supported scripts, an uncommon choice for a monospace typewriter revival.
- The studio describes the Weight axis as unusually extensive, distinguishing it from more constrained revivals.
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