Inconsolata

{{Short description|Open-source monospaced sans-serif font}}

{{Infobox typeface

| name = Inconsolata

| image = Inconsolata.svg

| style = Sans-serif Monospaced

| classifications = Humanist lineal

| creator = Raph Levien

| foundry =

| creationdate = 2006

| based_on = Consolas, Avenir, Letter Gothic

| license = SIL Open Font License

| sample = frameless

| website = {{URL|https://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html}}

}}

Inconsolata is an open-source font created by Raph Levien and released under the SIL Open Font License. It is a humanist lineal monospaced font designed for source code listing, terminal emulators, and similar uses. It was influenced by the proprietary Consolas monospaced font, designed by Lucas de Groot, the proportional Avenir and IBM's classic monospaced Letter Gothic.

Inconsolata has received favorable reviews from many programmers{{cite web | url=http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/top-10-programming-fonts | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601171845/http://hivelogic.com/articles/view/top-10-programming-fonts | url-status=dead | archive-date=1 June 2009 | title=Top 10 Programming Fonts | last=Benjamin | first=Dan | date=17 May 2009 | website=Hivelogic | access-date=27 June 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2007/september/inconsolata | title=Inconsolata: Quality Free and Open Font for Programmers | last=Garrity | first=Steven | date=9 September 2007 | website=Acts of Volition | access-date=27 June 2014}}{{cite web | url=http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/gnome-desktop/inconsolata-loveliness | title=Lovely Inconsolata | last=Cowie | first=Andrew | date=19 December 2009 | website=Operational Dynamics | access-date=27 June 2014 | archive-date=24 August 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110824211012/http://blogs.operationaldynamics.com/andrew/software/gnome-desktop/inconsolata-loveliness | url-status=usurped }} who consider it to be a highly readable and clear monospaced font.

Initially having no bold weight, when Inconsolata was added to Google Fonts, it was fully hinted and a bold variant was added.

A Hellenised version of Inconsolata, containing full support for monotonic Modern Greek, was released by Dimosthenis Kaponis in 2011 as Inconsolata Hellenic, under the same license.{{cite web | url=http://blog.cosmix.org/2011/01/06/inconsolata-hellenic/ | title=Inconsolata Hellenic! | last=Kaponis | first=Dimosthenis | date=6 January 2011 | website=cosmix.org | access-date=27 June 2014}}

Inconsolata-LGC is a fork of Inconsolata Hellenic which adds bold, italic and cyrillic glyphs.{{cite web | url=https://github.com/MihailJP/Inconsolata-LGC | title=Inconsolata-LGC | website=github.com | access-date=6 November 2018}}