Open-source monospace font for code listings, originally by @raphlinus
Inconsolata includes ligatures for a few JavaScript operators:
They are available in two families.
- "Inconsolata" exposes the ligatures as
dlig. These are disabled by default, and probably won't show up in your editor. You can enable them in CSS with this rule:font-variant-ligatures: discretionary-ligatures;
- "Ligconsolata" exposes the ligatures as
liga. These are enabled by default. This is the family you should use in your text editor.
Note: the Ligconsolata variant has not yet been upgraded to version 3.000, as we're prioritizing the non-ligature variants.
Family is built using Glyphs, fontmake and gftools post processing script. Tools are all python based.
To install all the Python tools into a virtualenv, do the following:
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
To build the fonts we must load sources/Inconsolata-vf.glyphs in Glyphs and do the following:
- Run the decompose-transformed-components.py script
- Run the gen_instances.py script
- Run the inco_fix.py script
- Save the file back in the sources directory with the filename "prod.glyphs"
We can now run the build script in the terminal:
cd sources # script needs to be run from sources dir
sh build.sh
Fonts will take approximately 25 minutes to build.
Upgrade to 2-axis variable font family, with widths from 50 to 200, and weights from 200 to 900.
- Removed ligatures for
fiandfl. - Operator ligatures moved to
dlig. - New variant "Ligconsolata" introduced, which exposes operator ligatures as
liga.
March 2018 glyph set expansion was completed by @appsforartists, which included:
- Glyph Set expanded to include ligatures for ===, !==, =>, <=, >=, ->, <-
August 2016 glyph set expansion was completed by Alexei Vanyashin ( Cyreal ), which included:
- Glyph Set expanded to GF Latin Pro
- Additional glyphs ⊕↑↗→↘↓↙←↖↔↕⇧⇨⇩⇦⬆⮕⬇⬅●○◆◇☹☺☻♠♣♥♦✓✔✕✗✘␣⎋⌂⇪⌧⌫⌦⌥⌘⏎�
- Minor design improvements (trademark corner spurs)
Further reading: Inconsolata expansion project thread on Google Fonts Discussions
- GF Latin Pro
This Font Software is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. This license is copied below, and is also available with a FAQ at: http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
Inconsolata fonts can be built using either export from Glyphs or using fontmake. The font files committed to this repo are done using fontmake.
Inconsolata source files are available in .glyphs format located in the /sources directory.
- Follow the "Creating the ligature" section of the Glyphs ligatures tutorial.
- Name your new glyph with the suffix
.dlig, for instancebar_greater.dlig. - Open the Font Info panel.
- Switch to the Features tab.
- Click dlig in the sidebar.
- Click the Update button at the bottom of the panel.
- Switch to the Instances tab.
- Update the Rename Glyphs value for "Ligconsolata Regular" to include a new line for your new glyph, for instance:
bar_greater.dlig=bar_greater.liga - Update the Rename Glyphs value for "Ligconsolata Bold".
- Export the font, as explained below.
It's possible to export the project as a single variable font. It's just a bit tricky, because the font uses components with varying 2x2 components, triggering a bug which is present in both fontmake and Glyphs export. Thus, there's an inco_fix.py script in the sources directory that detects this case and decomposes just those components. Run that script before exporting. The script also decomposes corner components, which makes the resulting glyphs file suitable for fontmake export as well (fontmake currently has no support for corner components).
You can copy the script into the Scripts folder for Glyphs, which will make it available in the Script menu, or you can just copy it into the Macro Panel.
After running the script, the following fontmake invocation will generate a variable font:
fontmake -g sources/Inconsolata-vf.glyphs -o variable
This is the version in the fonts/ directory, as it is slightly smaller than the version generated by Glyphs.
We do not check the result of the inco_fix script into version control, as we want to preserve editability. It's entirely possible that a future version of fontmake (or Glyphs itself) will be able to handle the source file without running a script.
The source file contains 15 instances, including all weights of the normal (100) width, and also all masters. This is a reasonable complement for working on the font. Run the gen_instances.py script to generate a total of 72 instances; all combinations of the weights from 200 to 900, and widths 50, 70, 80, 90, 110, 120, 150, and 200.
There are two other instances for Ligconsolata, and fontmake will attempt to generate those, but the "Rename Glyphs" custom parameter doesn't seem to be respected by fontmake, so these won't have ligatures enabled. Use the Glyphs export instead (detailed below).
Then run this command to generate OTF:
fontmake -g sources/Inconsolata-vf.glyphs -i -o otf
And this command to generate autohinted TTF:
fontmake -g sources/Inconsolata-vf.glyphs -i -o ttf -a
These are the versions in the fonts/ directory.
This is the preferred way to generate the Ligconsolata instances, but
-
TTF and OTF files should be exported into
/fonts/ttfand/fonts/otffolders. -
TTFsshould be generated from Glyphs App withAutohintoption checked. At the moment there is no custom build script required to produce font files, since default TTFautohinting options suffice.
OTFsshould be generated with these options:- Remove Overlap
- Autohint
- Save as TTF
- Export destination: $REPO_PATH/fonts/otf
In addition, we want to export a subset not including Vietnamese script coverage, to avoid over-large line spacing on older applications (such as terminals and text editors) that don't understand the "use typo metrics" flag (see googlefonts/Inconsolata#35).
The repository also contains some Rust code to manipulate Glyphs format masters, in the glyphstool subdirectory. This was used to apply global transforms (mostly as a starting point for the width work). Perhaps the most valuable aspect is that it contains a fairly complete set of line and box drawing primitives, inspired by [Source Code Pro] but with actually variable weight and width. It's not particularly polished or well documented, but is provided for completeness, and it's possible that it could be adapted to future tools that work with font data in the Glyphs format. The code is licensed under Apache 2.0 or MIT, in keeping with the Rust tradition.
Copyright 2006 The Inconsolata Project Authors
- Pick your font family and then select from the
'complete'directory.- If you are on Windows pick a font with the
'Windows Compatible'suffix.- This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
- If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the
'Mono'suffix. - If you want to have bigger icons (usually around 1.5 normal letters wide) pick a font without
'Mono'suffix. Most terminals support this, but ymmv.
- If you are on Windows pick a font with the
Ligatures are generally preserved in the patched fonts.
Nerd Fonts v2.0.0 had no ligatures in the Nerd Font Mono fonts, this has been dropped with v2.1.0.
If you have a ligature-aware terminal and don't want ligatures you can (usually) disable them in the terminal settings.
Once you narrow down your font choice of family (Droid Sans, Inconsolata, etc) and style (bold, italic, etc) you have 2 main choices:
- For a stable version download a font package from the release page
- Or download the development version from the
completefolder here
- patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
- This is the option you want if the font you use is not already included or you want maximum control of what's included
- This contains a list of all permutations of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only Octicons or you want the font with just Font Awesome and Devicons.
For more information see: The FAQ