Commercial · Slab serif · ITC
ITC American Typewriter
ITC American Typewriter is a licensed font from ITC: Complete family of 9 fonts: $358.99 USD, as printed on the foundry or reseller’s page on 2026-09-05. The 3 open-licence families below are suggested in its place, each with the basis for the substitution.
The name above is set in a fallback face. ITC American Typewriter is a licensed font and there is no file here to show it in; the foundry’s page has the real specimen.
- Designer
- Joel Kaden, Tony Stan
- Released
- 1974
- Styles
- 9
- Classification
- Slab serif
- Price
- Complete family of 9 fonts: $358.99 USD (Individual Styles from $40.99 USD) — as printed, read 2026-09-05
Joel Kaden and Tony Stan's 1974 proportional-spaced take on typewriter slab lettering; nine styles.
Free alternatives to ITC American Typewriter
Suggested, not measured
Typecase measures fonts from their outlines. ITC American Typewriter is not on this machine, so these were chosen by what is known about it — classification, lineage, common use — and each is labelled with that basis. Open one to see its measured character and neighbours.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Courier Prime webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Courier Prime.
commonly substituted
A refined take on Courier; keeps the typewriter idiom American Typewriter evokes, but is monospaced.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Bitter webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Bitter.
same classification
A slab text serif for screens; proportional slab with a similar warm, low-contrast feel.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Kreon webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Kreon.
same classification
A slightly slab-like, friendly low-contrast text face; comparable softness.
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