
The font that is actually provided is URW Nimbus Mono (A Courier clone). An enhanced version is available with the TeX Gyre Cursor font.

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[LaTeX source of PDF sample]
\usepackage{courier}
\renewcommand*\familydefault{\ttdefault} %% Only if the base font of the document is to be typewriter style
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\normalfont
\slshape
\bfseries
\bfseries\slshape
Courier is available as Type 1.
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/psnfss-source/