Consolas

Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface, designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It comes with Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and is available for download from Microsoft. Among the Windows Vista fonts, Consolas is most similar to the original Windows 3.1 monospaced font Cou... More

Consolas is a monospaced (non-proportional) typeface, designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of a new suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It comes with Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and is available for download from Microsoft. Among the Windows Vista fonts, Consolas is most similar to the original Windows 3.1 monospaced font Courier New or Lucida Console and Monaco from Mac OS X. It is the only standard Windows Vista font with a slash through the zero character. Consolas is a departure in the realm of Windows programming fonts because it is designed to work with a specific form of font antialiasing, specifically Microsoft's ClearType technology. The font hinting is correspondingly ClearType-specific, and as a result the font is highly aliased when used with ClearType switched off. Consolas supports the following OpenType layout features: stylistic alternates,...

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