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Free alternatives to Courier New

Courier New is not an open font. These open fonts come closest by measured letter widths, the property that decides whether text keeps its line breaks when the font is swapped. Roboto Mono Bold and Roboto Mono Medium and Roboto Mono Regular and Roboto Mono Light and Roboto Mono ExtraLight and Roboto Mono Thin and Roboto Mono SemiBold and Oxygen Mono Regular and Noto Mono Regular and Cousine Regular have identical widths.

Closest open fonts to Courier New

Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.

  1. Roboto Mono Boldidentical letter widths (0 units)
  2. Roboto Mono Mediumidentical letter widths (0 units)
  3. Roboto Mono Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)
  4. Roboto Mono Lightidentical letter widths (0 units)
  5. Roboto Mono ExtraLightidentical letter widths (0 units)
  6. Roboto Mono Thinidentical letter widths (0 units)
  7. Roboto Mono SemiBoldidentical letter widths (0 units)
  8. Oxygen Mono Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)
  9. Noto Mono Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)
  10. Cousine Regularidentical letter widths (0 units)

Courier New measured

Average lowercase letter width600.1 units per 1000 em
Average capital letter width600.1 units per 1000 em
Word space600.1 units per 1000 em
Digitstabular (every digit is 600.1 units wide, so columns of numbers line up)
Spacingmonospaced
Width of i compared with m100%
Printable ASCII characters covered94 of 94
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Editing a PDF that uses Courier New

Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. Courier New is not freely available, so MythosPDF first uses every letter already embedded in your PDF. If a new letter is missing, it asks before using the closest open font listed here, and tells you which one it used.

Questions people ask

+What is the best free alternative to Courier New?

By measured letter widths, Roboto Mono Bold: identical letter widths (0 units per 1000 em). Identical widths mean a document keeps exactly the same line breaks.

+Can I edit a PDF that uses Courier New without having it installed?

Yes. Where a PDF lacks a letter, MythosPDF can use a font with identical widths, so the layout does not move, and it tells you it did.

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