Consolas™ Family is aimed for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. All characters in the Consolas font have the same width, like old typewriters, making the Consolas Family a good choice for personal and business correspondance. The improved Windows font display allowed a design with proportions closer to normal text than traditional monospaced fonts like Courier. This allows for more comfortably reading of extended text on screen with Consolas. OpenType features include hanging or lining numerals; slashed, dotted and normal zeros; and alternative shapes for a number of lowercase letters. The look of Consolas font Family can be tuned to personal taste by varying the number of bars and waves. Consolas was designed by Luc(as) de Groot.

Consolas Character Set: Latin-1, WGL Pan-European (Eastern Europe, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish). 713 glyphs per font. OpenType Layout features: stylistic alternates, localized forms, uppercase-sensitive forms, oldstyle figures, lining figures, arbitrary fractions, superscript, subscript.