Consolas
| Category | Monospaced, sans-serif |
|---|---|
| Classification | Humanist |
| Designer | Luc(as) de Groot |
| Foundry | Microsoft |
| Date released | November 2006; 18 years ago (November 2006) |
| License | Proprietary |
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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
[edit ]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
[edit ]This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, is 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 Ascender Corporation.
Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their text editor BBEdit.
Alternatives
[edit ]- Inconsolata, an open source font inspired by Consolas, is available on Google Fonts.[7]
See also
[edit ]References
[edit ]- ^ "Consolas - Version 5.32". Microsoft . 2016年04月05日. Archived from the original on 2016年04月05日. Retrieved 2020年08月02日.
- ^ "Font List Windows 10 - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Archived from the original on 6 December 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ "Excel Viewer". Microsoft . Archived from the original on 2018年04月30日. Retrieved 2014年08月02日.
- ^ "Powerpoint Viewer". Microsoft . Archived from the original on 2012年07月12日. Retrieved 2013年02月19日.
- ^ "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats". Microsoft . Archived from the original on 2018年04月29日. Retrieved 2013年02月19日.
- ^ "Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1". Microsoft . Archived from the original on 2013年05月05日. Retrieved 2013年02月19日.
- ^ "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Archived from the original on 2016年10月20日. Retrieved 2017年08月11日.
External links
[edit ]
- Microsoft Typography page
- Van Wagener, Anne (2005年03月04日). "The Next Big Thing in Online Type". The Design Desk. Poynter Online. Retrieved 2006年06月05日.