Inconsolata font

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Inconsolata is my first serious original font release. It is a monospace font, designed for printed code listings and the like. There are a great many programmer fonts, designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.

Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's Vista release. This font, similar to his earlier TheSansMono, demonstrated clearly to me that monospaced fonts do not have to suck.

First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's Avenir (the lowercase "a", in particular, pays homage to this wonderful design), but also looked to Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic family for guidance on some of my favorite glyphs, such as lowercase "g" and "S", and, most especially, the numerals.

Designing a monospace font poses unique challenges. I have carefully studied many other monospaced fonts to see how they solve these problems. Many of the available monospace fonts are adaptations of existing proportionally-spaced fonts, but some, such as Letter Gothic, draw strength from being their own designs. I hope Inconsolata upholds that tradition.

Some details will be most apparent in print, such as the subtle curves in lowercase "t", "v", "w", and "y". Inconsolata also borrows "micro-serifs" from some Japanese Gothic fonts, which enhance the appearance of crispness and legibility.

Completion of this font is being generously sponsored by the TeX Users Group Development Fund. If you like this font and want to see more sponsored and released freely, please consider donating to TUG. Inconsolata has its own web page and also Wikipedia page.

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FONTLOG for the Inconsolata Bold font

This file provides detailed information on the Inconsolata Bold
font Software.

This information should be distributed along with the
Inconsolata Bold fonts and any derivative works.

Basic Font Information

Inconsolata Bold is a Unicode typeface family that supports
languages that use the Latin script and its variants, and
could be expanded to support other scripts.

More specifically, this release supports the following Unicode
ranges: Latin-1

There are two .vfb Source files:
1. Inconsolata Bold-OTF.vfb (Merged contours)
2. Inconsolata Bold-TTF.vfb (TTF countours)

ChangeLog

18 September 2012 (Alexei Vanyashiin) Inconsolata bold v. 1.014
- Fixed spacing issue associated with the character "4" and "0"
- Applied ttfautohint (to fix windows rendering problem that occurred in v 1.000)


7 December 2011 (Kirill Tkachev) Inconsolata Bold v. 1.000
- Completed Bold version of Inconsolata in VBF format.

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N),
email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D).
This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Kirill Tkachev
W: http://cyreal.org
E: contact at cyreal.org
D: Designer

Copyright (c) 2011, Raph Levien ([email protected]), Copyright (c) 2012, Cyreal (cyreal.org)

This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at:
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