The New Screenplay Standard Font is Here: Courier Prime from Quote-Unquote Apps (And It's Free)

This is a brief excerpt from NoFilmSchool

Fonts are sexy. Okay, maybe not, but they are a major element of print and web design. Heck, you’re looking at one right now. Fonts impact how we perceive information. I bet Koo is pouring over hundreds of fonts at this very moment trying to pick the right ones for the website redesign (I vote for Mistral). For screenwriters, however, we’re essentially stuck with one and only one font: Courier. More specifically, for those of us using Final Draft, we’re stuck with Courier Final Draft. Courier is boring. It’s bland. It’s standard. Until recently, there was nothing you or I could do about it. Thanks to John August, Alan Dague-Greene and Ryan Nelson of Quote-Unquote Apps, however, now we have Courier Prime, a better Courier font designed specifically for screenplays. Even better, it’s free.

Right now, you may be thinking, “So what?” Fine. Be that way. But if you write screenplays, I encourage you to download Courier Prime (again, for free) and spend some time writing with it. Here’s what the regular Courier Prime and its italic version look like (thanks to johnaugust.com):

First Impressions

Courier Prime happened to come out the …

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