Inconsolata
A free alternative to Consolas
Raph Levien drew Inconsolata after seeing Lucas de Groot's Consolas and concluding that monospaced type did not have to be ugly — his own words, more or less, and the ambition shows in how much attention the details got. It was aimed at printed code listings rather than screens, which is unusual: most programmer fonts are drawn for a terminal and fall apart at 600 dpi. It carries a width axis as well as weight, running from half-width to double, which is far more range than a fixed-pitch face normally offers.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- Alternative to
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Inconsolata';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/inconsolata.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Inconsolata', monospace;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
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 Turkish 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.
- Does Inconsolata support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish and Vietnamese?
- Yes. 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.