Comments on: Inconsolata OpenType programming font

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:19:07 +0000

I made a slashed zero version available although it has some other issues relating to the tool I used and bezier conversions.

[)amien

By: Alex Bischoff

Alex Bischoff — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 06:17:11 +0000

The missing slash (or dot) in the zero is my only qualm with the font — I’m very pleased with it otherwise. In any case, if you happen to add that feature, could you drop me a line? :)

By: George V. Reilly

George V. Reilly — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 06:36:34 +0000

The lousy hinting in Inconsolata is the deal breaker for me. In fairness, it seems to be primarily designed as a printing font, not a screen font. But I rarely print and I spend all day looking at fixed-width fonts in editors.

By: Rik Hemsley

Rik Hemsley — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:04:24 +0000

Yes, it seems that the hinting is completely broken on Inconsolata

By: Gabriel Lozano-Morán

Gabriel Lozano-Morán — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:00:54 +0000

A while ago I was also looking for a fixed-glyph font to replace the Courier New and I have tried several monospace fonts but I found Consolas to be one of the best out there.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 10:06:53 +0000

The sample here was rendered with ClearType enabled in WordPad.

I think the reason you are finding it ugly is that it doesn't feature heavy hinting trying to constrain it to individual whole pixels.

I might be able to clear that up a little with my derived version.

[)amien

By: Rik Hemsley

Rik Hemsley — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:11:06 +0000

It looks decent on the original site (though it's been rendered at some huge point size) but your version looks terrible.

What did you use to render it? The AA is more like blurring and it's inconsistent - making all the lines look misshapen.

Nice font, though. Perhaps as good as Consolas, which I'm currently using.