Licenses

Free Consolas alternatives

Luc(as) de Groot for Microsoft, 2006, and the default in Visual Studio for years.

What a Consolas substitute has to get right

Disambiguation, and it is not optional: a slashed or dotted zero, and an l, a 1 and an I that cannot be confused at 12px. A handsome mono that fails those is unusable for the job.

The 4 in this archive

Listed only where the substitution would survive a designer looking at both — a flattering near-match is worse than a short list.

  • JetBrains Mono

    Monospace · Philipp Nurullin, Konstantin Bulenkov · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

  • IBM Plex Mono

    Monospace · Mike Abbink, Bold Monday

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

  • Source Code Pro

    Monospace · Paul D. Hunt · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

  • Inconsolata

    Monospace · Raph Levien · Variable

    Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Consolas is not ours and nothing here is affiliated with or endorsed by whoever owns it. The name is used to say what these free typefaces can be set instead of. Every font above is redistributable, carries its licence inside the download, and is free for commercial work.