Inconsolata
Encyclopedia
Inconsolata is an open source font created by Raph Levien
and released under the SIL Open Font License
. It is a monospaced font designed for source code
listing, terminal emulator
s, and similar uses. Its design was largely inspired by humanist designs. It is largely 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 who consider it to be a highly readable and clear monospaced font.
A Hellenised version of Inconsolata, containing full support for monotonic Modern Greek
was released by Dimosthenis Kaponis in early January 2011 as Inconsolata Hellenic, under the same license. The author has stated that the hellenised font should be considered work in progress.
Raph Levien
Raphael Levien is an influential member of the free software developer community, through his creation of the Advogato virtual community and his work with the free software branch of Ghostscript. He is currently employed by Google...
and released under the SIL Open Font License
SIL Open Font License
The SIL Open Font License is a free and open source license designed for fonts by SIL International for use with some of their Unicode fonts. The license is considered free by the Free Software Foundation, which states that a simple hello world program is enough to satisfy the license's requirement...
. It is a monospaced font designed for source code
Source code
In computer science, source code is text written using the format and syntax of the programming language that it is being written in. Such a language is specially designed to facilitate the work of computer programmers, who specify the actions to be performed by a computer mostly by writing source...
listing, terminal emulator
Terminal emulator
A terminal emulator, terminal application, term, or tty for short, is a program that emulates a video terminal within some other display architecture....
s, and similar uses. Its design was largely inspired by humanist designs. It is largely influenced by the proprietary Consolas
Consolas
Consolas is a monospaced typeface, designed by Lucas 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...
monospaced font, designed by Lucas de Groot, the proportional Avenir
Avenir (typeface)
Avenir is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Adrian Frutiger in 1988, and released by Linotype GmbH, now a subsidiary of Monotype Corporation....
and IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
's classic monospaced Letter Gothic
Letter Gothic
Letter Gothic is a monospaced sans-serif typeface. It was created between 1956 and 1962 by Roger Roberson for IBM in their Lexington plant. It was initially intended to be used in Selectric electric typewriters. It is readable and is recommended for technical documentation and for sheets including...
.
Inconsolata has received favorable reviews from many programmers who consider it to be a highly readable and clear monospaced font.
A Hellenised version of Inconsolata, containing full support for monotonic Modern Greek
Modern Greek
Modern Greek refers to the varieties of the Greek language spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic...
was released by Dimosthenis Kaponis in early January 2011 as Inconsolata Hellenic, under the same license. The author has stated that the hellenised font should be considered work in progress.