UK TeX FAQ -- question 206

### How to do bold-tt or bold-sc

LaTeX, as delivered, offers no means of handling bold "teletype" or small-caps fonts. There's a practical reason for this (Knuth never designed such fonts), but there are typographical considerations too (the "medium weight" `cmtt` font is already pretty bold (by comparison with other fixed-width fonts), and bold small-caps is not popular with many professional typographers).

There's a set of "extra" Metafont files on CTAN that provide bold versions of both `cmtt` and `cmcsc` (the small caps font). With modern TeX distributions, one may bring these fonts into use simply by placing them in an appropriate place in the texmf tree; TeX (and friends) will automatically build whatever font files they need when you first make reference to them. There's a jiffy package bold-extra that builds the necessary font data structures so that you can use the fonts within LaTeX.

If you need to use Type 1 fonts, you can't proceed with Knuth-style fonts, since there are no Type 1 versions of the mf-extra set. However, commercial fixed-width fonts (including the default Courier) almost always come with a bold variant, so that's not a problem. Furthermore PSNFSS typically provides "faked" small caps fonts, and has no compunctions about providing them in a bold form.

`bold-extra.sty`
  macros/latex/contrib/other/misc/bold-extra.sty
`bold tt and small caps fonts`
  fonts/cm/mf-extra/bold.tar.gz