Cousine
Steve MattesonSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Monospace · 2 weights · OFL · Türkçe
Free typewriter fonts
The look of a struck typewriter key: slab serifs, even colour, and often a deliberately imperfect impression.
About typewriter typefaces
How to recognise it
- Slab serifs on letters of even weight, usually monospaced.
- A deliberately imperfect impression in the faces drawn from real machines.
- Wide sidebearings, because every character had to fit the same cell.
- Figures and punctuation that look mechanical rather than drawn.
Typewriter or slab serif?
A slab serif is proportionally spaced and drawn for display or text. A typewriter face carries the constraints of a machine: one width for every character, and often the texture of ink on paper.
Slab serif fonts →Where it works
Scripts and screenplays, editorial furniture, packaging and anything that should look typed rather than set.
Where it does not
Long reading at small sizes. Monospacing wastes width on narrow letters and crowds the wide ones.
Special Elite
AstigmaticSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Display · 1 weight · Apache · Türkçe
Courier Prime
Alan Dague-GreeneSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Monospace · 2 weights · OFL · Türkçe
Cutive Mono
Vernon AdamsSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Monospace · 1 weight · OFL · Türkçe
Cutive
Vernon AdamsSphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Serif · 1 weight · OFL · Türkçe
Questions
- What is a typewriter font?
- The look of a struck typewriter key: slab serifs, even colour, and often a deliberately imperfect impression. Slab serifs on letters of even weight, usually monospaced.
- When should I use a typewriter typeface?
- Scripts and screenplays, editorial furniture, packaging and anything that should look typed rather than set. Where it does not work: long reading at small sizes. Monospacing wastes width on narrow letters and crowds the wide ones.
- What is the difference between typewriter and slab serif fonts?
- A slab serif is proportionally spaced and drawn for display or text. A typewriter face carries the constraints of a machine: one width for every character, and often the texture of ink on paper.
- Are these typewriter fonts free for commercial use?
- Yes. All 5 of them are published under licences that permit commercial use — the SIL Open Font License, the Apache License 2.0, the Ubuntu Font Licence or a release into the public domain — with no fee and no credit required. Every download on this site includes the licence file inside the zip.