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.
Consolas
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- Consolas
- Period
- 2006.
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Overview
Overview
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.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Consolas • Style — Monospaced, sans-serif • Classifications — Humanist • Date — 2006 • Creator — Luc(as) de Groot • Foundry — Microsoft • Releasedate — November 2006 • License — Proprietary • Sample — * Illustration — Consolas sample text
Characteristics
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. In version 7.00 there are 3,030 glyphs in total.
Availability
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.
Alternatives
Alternatives
• Inconsolata, an open source font inspired by Consolas, is available on Google Fonts.
Chronology
Dated record
Chronology
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2006
Consolas first recorded.
2006
Consolas is recorded from 2006.
Text attribution
Licensing
Text attribution
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The biographical narrative on this page is based on the Wikipedia article Consolas, revision 1348818221 (EN edition), by its contributors. VALÉORINE has edited that text and built its own documentary record around it. The reused material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, and this page's reuse of it is offered under the same licence. Everything else on this page — the chronology, the holdings, the evidence, the plates and the connections — is VALÉORINE's own record. Sources and licences.
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Cited by Wikipedia
Notes from the source article
These works are cited by the source article, in its own numbering. They are recorded as its citations, not as sources VALÉORINE has verified.
- 1.Consolas - Version 5.32. Microsoft. 2016-04-05.
- 2.Font List Windows 10 - Typography. docs.microsoft.com.
- 3.Excel Viewer. Microsoft.
- 4.Powerpoint Viewer. Microsoft.
- 5.Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats. Microsoft.
- 6.Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1. Microsoft.
- 7.LucasFonts. Consolas Font Styles.
- 8.Google Fonts.
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References
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