Consolas
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| font | Consolas |
| category | Monospace |
| Font designer | Lucas de Groot |
| Type foundry | Microsoft |
| Creation | 2007 |
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Consolas is a disproportionate typeface from type designer Lucas de Groot . It is part of a series of new fonts introduced with Microsoft Windows Vista and has also been included in Microsoft Office since Windows 2007 and Mac OS X 2008.
Here it replaces Courier New as the standard non-proportional font. It is the only non-proportional font among the six clear-type fonts introduced with Windows Vista . It was designed primarily for programming . Since their characters are more similar to normal text than the Courier New, which has been mostly used up to now, longer texts are easier to read on the screen.
Consolas contains the character sets Latin, Latin (extended), Greek and Cyrillic.
Availability
In addition to Microsoft Office, it is included in the PowerPoint Viewer 2007 and in the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac , which Microsoft offers for free download, along with the other new fonts Calibri , Cambria , Candara , Constantia and Corbel . The font is retained after uninstalling the programs.
Consolas is the standard font of the text editor BBEdit and is supplied with it.
