Inconsolata is an open-source

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created by

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and released under the

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. It is a

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designed for

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listing,

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s, and similar uses. It was influenced by the proprietary

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monospaced font, designed by

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, the proportional Avenir and IBM's classic monospaced

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. Inconsolata has received favorable reviews from many programmers who consider it to be a highly readable and clear monospaced font. Initially having no bold weight, when Inconsolata was added to

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, it was fully hinted and a bold variant was added. A Hellenised version of Inconsolata, containing full support for monotonic

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, was released by Dimosthenis Kaponis in 2011 as Inconsolata Hellenic, under the same license. Inconsolata-LGC is a fork of Inconsolata Hellenic which adds bold, italic and cyrillic glyphs.

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Inconsolata Hellenic

Inconsolata in Google Font Directory
{{Free and open-source typography 2006 introductions Monospaced typefaces Open-source typefaces

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