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Courier AI image prompts

The slab-serifed monospace designed for IBM typewriters in 1955, so ubiquitous it became the visual default of the typewritten page — and, by industry decree, of the screenplay. Every glyph marches at the same fixed width. Use the prompts below in Midjourney, DALL·E, or Stable Diffusion — or build your own from the Courier vocabulary.

Type specimen — Courier (Monospace slab); shown in Cousine, a metric match (OFL)

Copy-ready prompts

Midjourney
a typographic specimen poster in the Courier style, courier, typewriter font, monospace slab serif, screenplay font, fixed-width, ibm typewriter, carbon copy text, manuscript type, monospaced, fixed-width, slab-serif, low-contrast, highly detailed --ar 3:2 --no text, watermark
DALL·E / ChatGPT
A typographic specimen poster in the Courier style. Emphasize courier, typewriter font, monospace slab serif, screenplay font, fixed-width, ibm typewriter, carbon copy text, manuscript type. The mood is monospaced, fixed-width, slab-serif, low-contrast. Highly detailed, no text or watermark, 3:2 landscape composition.
Stable Diffusion
a typographic specimen poster in the Courier style, courier, typewriter font, monospace slab serif, screenplay font, fixed-width, ibm typewriter, carbon copy text, manuscript type, monospaced, fixed-width, slab-serif, low-contrast, highly detailed, sharp focus
Negative prompt: text, watermark, signature, blurry, low quality, deformed

Courier keyword vocabulary

Tap a keyword to collect it in the Designdeas prompt builder, then mix in your own subject.

Prompts for related styles

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