Inconsolata

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Specification

Designer

Raph Levien

Released

2006

Category

Monospace

Alternative to

Consolas

License

OFL-1.1

Commercial use

Allowed

Good for

Code editors, Printed code listings, Terminals, Technical documentation

Weights

200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900

Styles

Normal

Variable

Yes

Glyphs

964

Languages

Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Vietnamese

Download size

186 KB

Source

github.com/googlefonts/Inconsolata

Questions

Is Inconsolata free for commercial use?

Yes. Inconsolata is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.

Can I use Inconsolata in a logo?

Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Inconsolata belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Raph Levien. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.

How do I install Inconsolata?

Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Inconsolata is a variable font: the single file carries all 8 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Inconsolata that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 72 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.

Does Inconsolata support Turkish?

Yes. Inconsolata includes the characters Türkçe needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.

What languages does Inconsolata support?

Inconsolata covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese, across 964 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

What weights does Inconsolata come in?

Inconsolata comes in 8 weights: Extra Light (200), Light (300), Regular (400), Medium (500), Semi Bold (600), Bold (700), Extra Bold (800) and Black (900). It is a variable font, so every one of them is in a single file and you can also set any weight in between.

Is there a smaller, Latin-only version of Inconsolata?

Yes — the "WOFF2 · Latin only" button on this page. It is 107 KB against 148 KB for the complete file, 28% smaller, with every weight the family has still in it. It covers Latin and Latin Extended, which is everything a page in English, Turkish or a western European language sets — Türkçe included, since ı, İ, ğ and ş all live in that range. Take the complete file instead if you set Cyrillic, Greek or any alphabet outside Latin.

Where can I download Inconsolata as WOFF2?

From the WOFF2 button on this page — the file is inconsolata.woff2, and it is about 148 KB. It is the complete font repacked for the web rather than a cut-down copy: the same glyphs, the same spacing and the same hinting as the .ttf in the download, roughly 60% smaller. Every browser still receiving updates reads WOFF2, so it is the only web format most sites need. Google Fonts does not offer this file for download at all — it serves WOFF2 from its own servers and gives you .ttf if you ask for the family.