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InconsolataDG – Slashed zero’s
Inconsolata now incorporates slashed zero’s rendering my version redundant. It has therefore been removed.
I’ve been messing about with FontForge and the Inconsolata font and come up with my own variant – InconsolataDG.
This version includes a slashed zero and the position of the horizontal bar on the lower-case f dropped to stop the blurring at 9/10 points. A whole 10 minutes work most of which included installing and configuring FontForge.
I’d actually done more work on it previously in FontLab but it did strange things to the curves – apparently converting Bézier to quadratic with imperfect results.
You can find it at my InconsolataDG page which will be updated as I make some more changes I want (loosing the loop on the lower-case g, filling in some missing symbols and maybe trying to get some hinting in there for improved Windows rendering).
Updated
: i and l characters modified to disambiguate l from 1 and ZIP now includes FontForge source file.
[)amien
Inconsolata OpenType programming font
My quest for something to replace Envy Code B on my ClearType-enabled systems continues.
It must be obviously scalable, mono-spaced (yes I know you *can* program with variable-width but I prefer fixed-width), have distinctive characters to help avoid confusion between 1il, o0OQ, $Ss8 at reasonably small font sizes – you know the drill.
So far I’ve tried Andale Mono, Anonymous, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, Consolas, Monaco and a whole host of less desirable ones from Keith Deven’s programming font list.
Imagine my surprise when I read on Scott Hanselman’s blog he was using a font I’d never heard of called Inconsolata.
True, the font isn’t *perfect* but it is very fine indeed. The best news is that it is to be liberally licence which means I should be able to make the tweaks I want (there are some Bezier glitches, missing symbols and that zero needs a slash through it) and release a derivative version. I’m also not keen on the micro-serifs but we’ll see.
I’m just getting clarification on the situation from the author as to whether the licence applies now or at final release.
[)amien