Nimbus Mono L

{{Infobox font

| name = Nimbus Mono

| image =Nimbus Mono Specimen.png

| style = Monospace

| classifications =

| releasedate = 1984{{cite web |url=http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&bInfoSta=$false&bInfoDes=$true&fontnummer=n022003l&21pb-id=wd3bbc0077da97a92c9987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121210103117/http://www.urwpp.de/cgi-bin1/dalcgi/source/fontliste0.htd?sprache=english&auswahl=-1&bInfoSta=$false&bInfoDes=$true&fontnummer=n022003l&21pb-id=wd3bbc0077da97a92c9987dbeae12bccd5a861fbdec |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-12-10 |title=Nimbus Mono L |publisher=URW++ |access-date=2010-05-06 }}

| creator = URW Studio (Adobe Studio); GPL version published also by Valek Fillipov

| foundry = URW++

}}

Nimbus Mono is a monospaced typeface created by URW Studio in 1984, and eventually released under the GPL and AFPL (as Type 1 font for Ghostscript) in 1996{{Citation |url=http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/378/1996/5/0/2064811/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021023155414/http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/378/1996/5/0/2064811/ |title=Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. |archive-date=2002-10-23 |access-date=2010-05-06}}{{Citation |url=http://www.tug.org/fonts/deutsch-urw.txt |title=Finally! Good-quality free (GPL) basic-35 PostScript Type 1 fonts. |format=TXT |access-date=2010-05-06}}{{cite web |url=http://www.tug.org/fonts/ |title=Fonts and TeX |date=2009-12-19 |access-date=2010-05-06}}{{citation |url=http://www.tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb29-1/tb91ludwichowski-fonts.pdf |title=Five years after: Report on international TEX font projects |year=2007 |access-date=2010-05-06}} and LPPL in 2009.{{citation |url=http://www.tug.org/fonts/lppl-urw.txt |title=URW++ making original 35 fonts available under LPPL |access-date=2010-05-06}}{{citation |url=http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz |title=ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 4.0 standard fonts - AFPL license |format=TAR.GZ |date=1996-06-28 |access-date=2010-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424032316/http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-4.0.tar.gz |archive-date=2011-04-24 }}{{citation |url=http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz |format=TAR.GZ |title=ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz - GhostScript 6.0 standard fonts - GPL license |date=1999-12-22 |access-date=2010-05-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110424032253/http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/aladdin/fonts/ghostscript-fonts-std-6.0.tar.gz |archive-date=2011-04-24 }} In 2017, the font, alongside other Core 35 fonts, has been additionally licensed under the terms of OFL.{{citation |url=https://github.com/twardoch/urw-core35-fonts/blob/master/LICENSE.md|date=2017-09-02|access-date=2021-02-21|title=Github.com - 3-licensing (AGPL LPPL OFL)}} It features Normal, Bold, Italic, and Bold Italic weights, and is one of several freely licensed fonts offered by URW++. Although not exactly the same, Nimbus Mono has metrics and glyphs that are very similar to Courier and Courier New.

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.{{cite web |url=https://ghostscript.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Fonts.html |title=Fonts and Font Facilities Supplied with Ghostscript |access-date=2024-01-08}}{{cite web |url=http://packages.debian.org/sid/gsfonts |title=Debian package - gsfonts |access-date=2010-04-21}}