Consolas

Consolas is a monospaced 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 Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and is available for download from Microsoft. It is the only standard Windows Vista font with a slash through the zero character. It is the default font for Microsoft Notepad starting with Windows 8.

## Contents

* 1 Characteristics
* 2 Availability
* 2.1 Alternatives
* 3 See also
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Characteristics

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

Although Consolas is designed as a replacement for Courier New, only 713 glyphs 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.[1] In version 7.00 there are 3,030 glyphs in total.[2]

## Availability

This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, was also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer,[3][4] the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack[5] for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.[6]

Consolas is also available for licensing from LucasFonts[7] and Ascender Corporation.

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

### Alternatives

* Inconsolata, an open source font inspired by Consolas, is available on Google Fonts.[8]

## See also

* Cascadia Code

## References

1. ↑ "Consolas - Version 5.32". 2016-04-05. https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1924.
2. ↑ "Font List Windows 10 - Typography" (in en-us). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/windows_10_font_list.
3. ↑ "Excel Viewer". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10.
4. ↑ "Powerpoint Viewer". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13.
5. ↑ "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3.
6. ↑ "Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1". http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27334.
7. ↑ "Consolas Font Styles". LucasFonts. https://www.lucasfonts.com/fonts/consolas/normal.
8. ↑ "Google Fonts". https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata.

## External links

* Microsoft Typography page
* Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". The Design Desk. Poynter Online. https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2005/the-next-big-thing-in-online-type/.

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Monospaced programming and typewriter fonts

Sans serif|

| Outline|

| Default zero regular|

* Droid Sans Mono
* Everson Mono
* Letter Gothic
* Liberation Mono
* Lucida Console
* Noto Sans Mono
* OCR-A
* OCR-B

|

Default zero dotted|

* Andalé Mono
* Cascadia Code
* Cousine
* DejaVu Sans Mono
* Fira Mono
* Hack
* IBM Plex Mono
* Input
* JetBrains Mono
* Overpass Mono
* PragmataPro
* Source Code Pro
* Ubuntu Mono

Default zero slashed|

* Consolas
* Envy Code R
* Fantasque Sans Mono
* Go Mono
* HyperFont
* Inconsolata
* Iosevka
* Luculent
* M+ FONTS
* Menlo
* Monaco
* ProFont
* PT Mono
* Roboto Mono
* San Francisco Mono

Pixel(ized)|

* 3x3
* Fixed
* Fixedsys
* GNU Unifont
* Terminal

Serif|

* IBM Courier
* FreeMono
* Linux Libertine Mono
* Monospace
* Nimbus Mono L
* Prestige Elite
* Tex Gyre Cursor

Samples of monospaced typefaces

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Microsoft Windows typefaces

Latin,
Greek,
Cyrillic|

* Arial, Arial Rounded
* Arial Unicode MS
* Bahnschrift
* Bauhaus 93
* Broadway
* Book Antiqua
* Calibri
* Calisto MT
* Cambria
* Candara
* Century Gothic
* Comic Sans MS
* Consolas
* Constantia
* Cooper Black
* Copperplate Gothic
* Corbel
* Courier New
* Franklin Gothic Medium
* Freestyle Script
* Gabriola
* Georgia
* Goudy Stout
* Harlow Solid Italic
* Impact
* Lucida
* Lucida Sans Unicode
* Microsoft Sans Serif
* News Gothic MT
* OCR A Extended
* Palatino Linotype
* Segoe
* Tahoma
* Times New Roman
* Trebuchet MS
* Verdana
* Westminster
* Wide Latin

Hebrew|

* Aharoni
* Arial
* Courier New
* Lucida Sans Unicode
* Microsoft Sans Serif
* Segoe UI Mono
* Tahoma
* Times New Roman

Arabic|

* Arabic Typesetting
* Arial
* Courier New
* Microsoft Sans Serif
* Segoe UI
* Tahoma
* Times New Roman
* Traditional Arabic

Thai|

* Microsoft Sans Serif
* Segoe UI Mono
* Tahoma

Chinese|

| Simplified|

* Microsoft YaHei
* SimHei
* SimSun

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Traditional|

* Microsoft JhengHei
* MingLiU

Korean|

* Batang
* Dotum
* Gulim
* Gungsuh
* Malgun Gothic

Japanese|

* Meiryo
* MS Gothic
* MS Mincho

Indic scripts|

* Gautami
* Kartika
* Nirmala UI
* Vrinda

Other|

* Cambria Math
* Ebrima
* Euphemia
* Gadugi
* Marlett
* Nyala
* Sylfaen
* Symbol
* Webdings
* Wingdings

List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows

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