Inconsolata Font
by Raph Levien · Sans Serif · 8 styles · OFL · free for commercial use
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About Inconsolata
Inconsolata was Raph Levien's 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.
The development of the Regular style by Raph Levien was started in 2006 using his own Spiro-based tools and FontForge.
The Bold style was designed by Kirill Tkachev and the Cyreal foundry in 2012.
Updated September 2015: Internal metadata corrected.
Updated April 2020: Family has been upgraded to a variable font family.
To contribute, see github.com/googlefonts/inconsolata.
License & usage
Inconsolata is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it for free in personal and commercial projects: logos, websites, apps, videos, print and products. You may embed it and modify it; the font files themselves may not be sold on their own.
To use it on a website, add the files with @font-face and set font-family: 'Inconsolata', sans-serif;
View the full license text (also included in the ZIP).
