- Accents (partial)
Cousine-Italic-Latin.ttf
Cousine Italic Font
Cousine family consisting of 4 fonts
Author's note
Cousine Italic is a free monospaced sans serif with a brisk rightward slant and an unusually light, open build. Its broad capitals and softly changing stroke widths keep the lettering airy, even across a rigid fixed-width setting. The lowercase forms are clean and economical.
Technical publishing is an especially apt setting, where its measured spacing can distinguish code extracts, annotations, and diagram labels without taking on the cold look of a terminal face. It also suits software documentation, editorial sidebars, and identity systems for engineering or research brands, with the italic angle letting the text act as an active notation or interface cue rather than ordinary supporting copy.
Technical publishing is an especially apt setting, where its measured spacing can distinguish code extracts, annotations, and diagram labels without taking on the cold look of a terminal face. It also suits software documentation, editorial sidebars, and identity systems for engineering or research brands, with the italic angle letting the text act as an active notation or interface cue rather than ordinary supporting copy.
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Basic font information
Copyright notice
Digitized data copyright (c) 2010 Google Corporation.
Font family
Cousine
Font subfamily
Italic
Unique subfamily identification
Ascender - Cousine Italic
Full font name
Cousine Italic
Name table version
Version 1.00
Postscript font name
Cousine-Italic
Trademark notice
Cousine is a trademark of Google and may be registered in certain jurisdictions.
Manufacturer name
Ascender Corporation
Designer
Steve Matteson
Description
Cousine was designed by Steve Matteson as an innovative, refreshing sans serif design that is metrically compatible with Courier New". Cousine offers improved on-screen readability characteristics and the pan-European WGL character set and solves the needs of developers looking for width-compatible fonts to address document portability across platforms.
Extended font information
Platforms supported
PlatformEncoding
UnicodeUnicode 2.0 and onwards semantics, Unicode BMP only.
MacintoshRoman
MicrosoftUnicode BMP only
Font details
Created2010-11-18
Revision1
Glyph count211
Units per Em2048
Embedding rightsEmbedding for editing allowed
Family classSans serif
WeightMedium (normal)
WidthMedium (normal)
Mac styleUnderline
DirectionOnly strongly left to right glyphs + contains neutrals
Italic angle-12
Pattern natureOblique
PitchMonospaced
Cousine-Italic-Latin.ttf
Cousine-Bold-Latin.ttf
Cousine-BoldItalic-Latin.ttf
Cousine-Regular-Latin.ttf
Cousine-Bold-Latin.ttf
Cousine-BoldItalic-Latin.ttf
Cousine-Regular-Latin.ttf
- Accents (partial)
Cousine-Bold-Latin.ttf
- Accents (partial)
Cousine-BoldItalic-Latin.ttf
- Accents (partial)
Cousine-Regular-Latin.ttf
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