Consolas
{{short description|Monospaced sans-serif font}}
{{Infobox font
| name = Consolas
| image = ConsolasSP.svg
| style = Monospaced, sans-serif
|classifications=Humanist
| date = 2006
| creator = Luc(as) de Groot
| foundry = Microsoft
| releasedate = {{start date and age|November 2006}}
| license = Proprietary
| sample = File:Consolas sample.svg
|}}
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.
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.{{Cite web|date=2016-04-05|title=Consolas - Version 5.32|website=Microsoft |url=https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1924|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405214433/https://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1924|archive-date=2016-04-05|access-date=2020-08-02}} In version 7.00 there are 3,030 glyphs in total.{{cite web |title=Font List Windows 10 - Typography |url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/windows_10_font_list |website=docs.microsoft.com |access-date=2 August 2020 |language=en-us |archive-date=6 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211206172019/https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/windows_10_font_list |url-status=live }}
Availability
This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, is also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer,{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10 |title=Excel Viewer |website=Microsoft |access-date=2014-08-02 |archive-date=2018-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180430111314/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=10 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13 |title=Powerpoint Viewer |website=Microsoft |access-date=2013-02-19 |archive-date=2012-07-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120712230357/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=13 |url-status=live }} the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3 |title=Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats |website=Microsoft |access-date=2013-02-19 |archive-date=2018-04-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180429085200/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=3 |url-status=live }} for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.{{Cite web |url=http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27334 |title=Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1 |website=Microsoft |access-date=2013-02-19 |archive-date=2013-05-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130505191454/http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=27334 |url-status=live }}
Consolas is also available for licensing from 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.{{Cite web|url=https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata|title=Google Fonts|website=Google Fonts|access-date=2017-08-11|archive-date=2016-10-20|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161020001502/https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Inconsolata|url-status=live}}
See also
References
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External links
{{Commons category|Consolas (typeface)|Consolas}}
- [https://docs.microsoft.com/en-US/typography/font-list/consolas Microsoft Typography page]
- {{cite web|last=Van Wagener|first=Anne|date=2005-03-04|url=https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2005/the-next-big-thing-in-online-type/|title=The Next Big Thing in Online Type|work=The Design Desk|publisher=Poynter Online|access-date=2006-06-05}}
{{Monospaced fonts}}
{{Microsoft Windows Typefaces}}
Category:Windows Vista typefaces
Category:Typefaces and fonts introduced in 2006
Category:Typefaces designed by Luc(as) de Groot