Consolas

 ( Monospaced Typefaces ) 

Consolas is a Monospaced font typeface designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It has been included with Windows since Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Visual Studio, and is available for download from Microsoft. It is the only standard Windows Vista font with a Slashed zero. It is the default font for Microsoft Notepad starting with Windows 8.

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Characteristics Consolas supports the following OpenType layout features: stylistic alternates, localized forms, uppercase-sensitive forms, text figures, lining figures, arbitrary fractions, superscript, subscript.

Although Consolas is designed as a replacement for Courier New, only 713 were initially available, as compared to Courier New (2.90)'s 1,318 glyphs. In version 5.22, support for Greek Extended, Combining Diacritical Marks For Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Box Drawing, and Geometric Shapes was added. In version 5.32 the total number of supported glyphs was 2,735. In version 7.00 there are 3,030 glyphs in total.

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Availability This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, was also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer, the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.

Consolas is also available for licensing from LucasFonts and Ascender Corporation.

Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their text editor BBEdit.

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Alternatives

• Inconsolata, an open source font inspired by Consolas, is available on Google Fonts.

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See also

• Cascadia Code

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External links

• Microsoft Typography page

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