Inconsolata是我（Raph Levien）首款正式发布的原创字体。这是一款专为印刷品中代码排版等场景设计的等宽字体。市面上已有大量主要针对屏幕显示优化的"程序员字体"，但大多数在高分辨率渲染时缺乏细节表现力。

这款字体的设计汲取了多方灵感。Luc(as) de Groot为微软Vista系统设计的Consolas等宽字体令我惊艳，与他早前的TheSansMono字体一样，这些作品让我确信等宽字体也能拥有美学价值。

Inconsolata本质上属于人文主义无衬线字体。我既追求Adrian Frutiger设计的Avenir字体那种清晰利落的线条感（特别是小写字母"a"向这款经典设计致敬），又参考了Morris Fuller Benton的Franklin Gothic字体家族中对特定字符的处理方式，如小写"g"、"S"以及最具特色的数字造型。

等宽字体设计面临独特挑战。我深入研究过多款等宽字体的解决方案：许多作品是在现有比例字体基础上调整而成，但像Letter Gothic这样坚持原创设计的字体更具独特魅力。希望Inconsolata能延续后者的创作传统。

某些细节在印刷时尤为显著，比如小写字母"t","v","w","y"中微妙的曲线变化。此外还借鉴了部分日式黑体字的"微衬线"设计，这种处理能增强字体的锐利感与可读性。

Inconsolata is my first serious original font release. It is a monospace font, designed for code listings and the like, in print. There are a great many "programmer fonts," designed primarily for use on the screen, but in most cases do not have the attention to detail for high resolution rendering.

Inconsolata draws from many inspirations and sources. I was particularly struck by the beauty of Luc(as) de Groot's Consolas, which is his monospaced design for Microsoft's upcoming Vista release. This font, similar to his earlier TheSansMono, demonstrated clearly to me that monospaced fonts do not have to suck.

First and foremost, Inconsolata is a humanist sans design. I strove for the clarity and clean lines of Adrian Frutiger's Avenir (the lowercase "a", in particular, pays homage to this wonderful design), but also looked to Morris Fuller Benton's Franklin Gothic family for guidance on some of my favorite glyphs, such as lowercase "g" and "S", and, most especially, the numerals.

Designing a monospace font poses unique challenges. I have carefully studied many other monospaced fonts to see how they solve these problems. Many of the available monospace fonts are adaptations of existing proportionally-spaced fonts, but some, such as Letter Gothic, draw strength from being their own designs. I hope Inconsolata upholds that tradition.

Some details will be most apparent in print, such as the subtle curves in lowercase "t", "v", "w", and "y". Inconsolata also borrows "micro-serifs" from some Japanese Gothic fonts, which enhance the appearance of crispness and legibility.

字体预览

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字体风格

使用许可

本字体以SIL Open Font License 1.1（SIL 开源字型授权版本1.1，简称SIL OFL 或OFL）授权协议发布，这个授权的自由度非常高：

✔ 这款字体无论是个人还是企业都可以自由免费商用，无需知会或者标明原作者。

✔ 这款字体可以自由传播、分享，或者将字体安装于系统、软件或APP中也是允许的，可以与任何软件捆绑再分发以及／或一并销售。

✔ 这款字体可以自由修改、改造，但修改或改造后的字体也必须同样以SIL Open Font License 1.1授权公开。

✘ 这款字体禁止用于违法行为，如因使用这款字体产生纠纷或法律诉讼，作者不承担任何责任。

✘ 根据SIL Open Font License 1.1的规定，禁止单独出售字体文件(OTF/TTF文件)的行为。

关于SIL Open Font License 1.1授权协议的内容、免责事项等详细细节，请查看详细的License授权文件的内容。

参考资料

字体来源出处1：https://github.com/googlefonts/inconsolata

字体来源出处2：https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Inconsolata （需要科学上网才能打开）

下载地址

夸克网盘（超速下载）：https://pan.quark.cn/s/ae2301f95fb4

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