Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984,[1] and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996[2][3][4][5] and LPPL in 2009.
[6][7][8] In 2017, the font, alongside other Core 35 fonts, has been additionally licensed under the terms of OFL.
[9] It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++.
It is one of the Ghostscript fonts, free alternatives to 35 basic PostScript fonts (which include Courier).
It is a standard typeface in many Linux distributions.