Letter Gothic

{{Short description|Monospaced sans-serif typeface}}

{{Infobox font

| name = Letter Gothic

| image = Letter Gothic.png

| caption =

| style = Sans-serif

| foundry = IBM

| releasedate = 1956

| creator = Roger Roberson

}}

Letter Gothic is a monospaced sans-serif typeface. It was created between 1956 and 1962 by Roger Roberson for IBM in their Lexington, Kentucky, plant, and was inspired by the original drawings for Optima.{{cite book |last1=Clair |first1=Kate |title=A Typographic Workbook: A Primer to History, Techniques and Artistry |date=20 June 2012 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |location=New York, NY |isbn=978-0471696902 |page=311 |edition=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Lf0iDYCr6w0C&q=letter+gothic&pg=PA311 |accessdate=10 June 2020}} It was initially intended to be used in IBM's Selectric typewriters. It is readable and is recommended for technical documentation and for sheets including columnar data.

Gayaneh Bagdasaryan designed a proportional font called New Letter Gothic, based on Letter Gothic, for ParaType.{{fact|date=February 2023}}{{Importance inline|date=February 2023}}

Letter Gothic was included in Windows 95. It was replaced by Andalé Mono in Windows 98 and in 2001, Windows XP replaced it with Lucida Console.

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