Typeface	Consolas
Category	Monospace
Designer(s)	Lucas de Groot
Foundry	Microsoft
Sample

Consolas is a monospaced font. It is a part of the new suite of fonts that take advantage of the new ClearType font hinting technology. It is bundled with Microsoft's Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, and is available for download for users of Microsoft Visual Studio. Among the six Windows Vista fonts, Consolas is the most similar to Lucida Console or Courier New. Image File history File links ConsolasSP.svg‎ Specimen of he typeface Consolas. ... “Font” redirects here. ... “Font” redirects here. ... In some context, it may be necessary to have columns of characters consistently aligned. ... A type designer is a person who designs typefaces. ... Lucas de Groot (21 June 1963 in Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands) is a Dutch type designer. ... A type foundry is a company that designs and/or distributes typefaces. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Image File history File links Consolas_sample. ... In some context, it may be necessary to have columns of characters consistently aligned. ... ClearType is a registered trademark for a technology developed by Microsoft Corporation to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens, especially flat-panel displays. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... Windows Vista is a line of graphical operating systems used on personal computers, including home and business desktops, notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and media centers. ... The 2007 Microsoft Office system (also called Microsoft Office 2007) is the most recent version of Microsofts productivity suite. ... Microsoft Visual Studio is Microsofts flagship software development product for computer programmers. ... Lucida is a family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. ... Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ...

Characteristics

Consolas represents a departure for the realm of Windows programming fonts because it is designed to work with a specific form of font antialiasing, specifically Microsoft's patented ClearType technology. However, lack of hinting makes the font look worse than Lucida Console when used without ClearType.^[1] ClearType is a registered trademark for a technology developed by Microsoft Corporation to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens, especially flat-panel displays. ... Lucida is a family of typefaces designed by Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes. ...

Consolas supports the following OpenType layout features: stylistic alternates, localized forms, uppercase-sensitive forms, oldstyle figures, lining figures, arbitrary fractions, superscript, subscript. Hoefler Text, a contemporary font, uses hanging or old style text figures. ... This article is about the term superscript as used in typography. ... A subscript is a number, figure, or indicator that appears below the normal line of type, typically used in a formula, mathematical expression, or description of a chemical compound. ...

Although Consolas is designed as a replacement for Courier New, it only has 713 glyphs. By comparison, Courier New version 2.90 has 1318 glyphs. A glyph is a carved figure or character, incised or in relief; a carved pictograph; hence, a pictograph representing a form originally adopted for sculpture, whether carved or painted. ...

Usage in programming

Traditionally, Windows programmers have used Courier New or a similar fixed-width font to do their programming. Unlike other forms of displayed text (such as PDFs, web pages and word processor documents) computer code does not specify the font in which it should be displayed - the choice is left to the programmer. Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ...

Sample

The following is a sample C++/CLI program using the standard programming font, Courier New: C++/CLI (Common Language Infrastructure) is the newer language specification due to supersede Managed Extensions for C++. Completely reviewed to simplify the older Managed C++ syntax, it provides much more clarity over code readability than Managed C++. C++/CLI is standardized by ECMA. It is currently only available on Visual... Courier is a monospace font that resembles the output from a typewriter. ...

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While Courier New was designed to be easy to read with simple rasterization and no antialiasing, the same is not true of Consolas: Font rasterization is the process of converting text from a vector description (as found in scalable fonts such as TrueType fonts) to a raster or bitmap description. ...

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However, once font smoothing is activated with Consolas, the text becomes easier to read:

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Consolas was designed specifically to provide its full readability and aesthetic benefits with ClearType: ClearType is a registered trademark for a technology developed by Microsoft Corporation to improve the appearance of text on certain types of computer display screens, especially flat-panel displays. ...

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External links

• Microsoft Cleartype Font Collection. Microsoft Typography. Microsoft (2007-02-01). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.
• Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). The Next Big Thing in Online Type. The Design Desk. Poynter Online. Retrieved on 2006-06-05.
• Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. Microsoft (2006-05-03). Retrieved on 2007-09-02.

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Notes

1. ^ Consolas and ClearType