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Inconsolata is monospace and Cairo is sans serif (8 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Inconsolata
A monospaced face by Raph Levien, first drawn for printed code listings, now variable in weight and width.
Inconsolata is a monospaced typeface by Raph Levien, designed for printed code listings. Inconsolata is a variable font with eight weights from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900 and a width axis from 50 to 200; it has no italic. It is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1 and is used in editors, terminals and code samples.
- Designer
- Raph Levien
- Classification
- Monospace
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
- Styles
- 8 8 weights
- Variable font
- Yes Weight 200–900, Width 50–200
- Glyphs
- 962
- Languages checked
- 25 see the list
- Last updated
- version 3.001
Official source: Google Fonts. Facts on this page were read from the font files and the source’s published data.
Try Inconsolata
Sample text
Type over the sample to test your own words. The preview loads a Latin subset of Inconsolata; the download contains the complete files.
Weights and styles
- ExtraLight 200Inconsolata ExtraLight
- Light 300Inconsolata Light
- Regular 400Inconsolata Regular
- Medium 500Inconsolata Medium
- SemiBold 600Inconsolata SemiBold
- Bold 700Inconsolata Bold
- ExtraBold 800Inconsolata ExtraBold
- Black 900Inconsolata Black
Inconsolata is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.
About Inconsolata
Inconsolata is a monospace typeface in which every character occupies the same horizontal space. Raph Levien began the Regular in 2006, working with his own Spiro-based tools and FontForge, and meant it for code printed at high resolution rather than only for screens. The Bold was added in 2012 by Kirill Tkachev and the Cyreal foundry, and in April 2020 the family became a variable font. It now carries two axes: weight, from 200 to 900, and width, from 50 to 200, which takes the design from half its normal width to double. The letters are open and fairly soft for a fixed-width face; the zero is slashed, and the capital I has serifs that set it apart from the lowercase l, which ends in a curved foot. There are 962 glyphs for Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. No italic is included.
Where Inconsolata works
- Code editors and terminals
- A slashed zero and a serifed capital I keep 0, O, I and l apart in identifiers and hashes.
- Printed code listings
- The face was designed for listings on paper, so it suits code in books, handouts and PDF documentation.
- Fitting more characters per line
- Width values below 100 narrow every character equally, which shows longer lines in a split editor pane.
- Logs and aligned columns
- Fixed character widths keep timestamps, numbers and table columns lined up without tab tricks.
- Weight as syntax emphasis
- Eight weights from ExtraLight to Black let a theme mark keywords or headings by weight instead of colour alone.
Glyphs
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢
Latin and Latin Extended characters in the preview subset; the complete family has 962 glyphs.
Language support
The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:
- English
- French
- German
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- Italian
- Dutch
- Swedish
- Norwegian
- Danish
- Finnish
- Icelandic
- Catalan
- Turkish
- Polish
- Czech
- Slovak
- Hungarian
- Romanian
- Croatian
- Slovenian
- Lithuanian
- Latvian
- Estonian
- Vietnamese
Character sets found in the files: latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1Copyright 2006 The Inconsolata Project Authors
What the license allows
- Use the fonts in personal and commercial work, in print, on the web and in apps.
- Modify the fonts and build new versions from them.
- Redistribute the fonts, on their own or bundled with software, as long as the license text and copyright notice go with them.
Conditions
- The fonts cannot be sold by themselves.
- A modified version must stay under the same license and cannot use a Reserved Font Name without the copyright holder's permission.
- The authors' names cannot be used to promote a modified version without permission.
This is a short summary, not legal advice. The license text decides: read the full OFL text. A copy is included in the download.
Fonts that pair with Inconsolata
Gabriela Serif
Inconsolata is monospace and Gabriela is serif (1 weight): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Montserrat Alternates Sans Serif
Inconsolata is monospace and Montserrat Alternates is sans serif (9 weights): the difference in structure separates headings from text.
Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.
Use Inconsolata on the web
Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.
CSS, self-hosted
@font-face {
font-family: "Inconsolata";
src: url("/assets/fonts/Inconsolata-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
font-weight: 200 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Inconsolata", monospace;
}Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Inconsolata with this markup:
HTML, Google Fonts
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Inconsolata:wght@200..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">Things to know
- No italic
- Inconsolata has upright styles only. Editors that show comments in italic will slant the letters artificially.
- One file, two axes
- A single variable file holds the 200 to 900 weight range and the 50 to 200 width range.
- Latin scripts only
- The character sets are Latin, Latin Extended and Vietnamese. Cyrillic and Greek are not included.
FAQs
Is Inconsolata free for commercial use?
Inconsolata is licensed under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. That license permits personal and commercial use, modification and redistribution, but the fonts cannot be sold on their own and derivatives have to stay under the same license.
Who designed Inconsolata?
Inconsolata was designed by Raph Levien, who started it in 2006. Kirill Tkachev of the Cyreal foundry added the Bold in 2012, and the font's credits also name Brenton Simpson.
How many weights does Inconsolata have?
Inconsolata has eight weights, from ExtraLight 200 to Black 900, and the variable font can also be set to any value in between.
Is Inconsolata a variable font?
Yes. Inconsolata is a variable font with a weight axis from 200 to 900 and a width axis from 50 to 200.
Does Inconsolata have an italic?
No. Inconsolata is upright only; there is no italic file in the family.
Which languages does Inconsolata support?
Inconsolata includes the letters needed for English and other Latin-script languages such as German, Polish, Turkish and Vietnamese. It does not include Cyrillic or Greek.
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Collections with Inconsolata
- Monospace fonts for coding
Fixed-width open-license families for editors and terminals, with clear zeros, several weights and, in most cases, italics.
- Variable fonts with a width axis
Variable families in which letter width is adjustable as well as weight, from slight narrowing for copy-fitting to a full condensed-to-wide range.
- Fonts that support Vietnamese
Open-license families that include the stacked diacritics Vietnamese needs, among them several designed in or for Vietnam.
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