Consolas
StyleMonospaced, sans-serif
ClassificationsHumanist
Date2006
CreatorLuc(as) de Groot
FoundryMicrosoft
ReleasedateNovember 2006
LicenseProprietary

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. 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.[1] In version 7.00 there are 3,030 glyphs in total.[2]

Availability

This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, was 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 LucasFonts[7] and Ascender Corporation.

Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their text editor BBEdit.

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References

  1. ^ "Consolas - Version 5.32". Microsoft. 2016-04-05. Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
  2. ^ "Font List Windows 10 - Typography". docs.microsoft.com. Archived 6 December 2021 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  3. ^ "Excel Viewer". Microsoft. Archived 2018-04-30 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2014-08-02.
  4. ^ "Powerpoint Viewer". Microsoft. Archived 2012-07-12 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  5. ^ "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats". Microsoft. Archived 2018-04-29 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  6. ^ "Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1". Microsoft. Archived 2013-05-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2013-02-19.
  7. ^ "Consolas Font Styles". LucasFonts. LucasFonts. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
  8. ^ "Google Fonts". Google Fonts. Archived 2016-10-20 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2017-08-11.