Free fonts similar to Consolas

The alternatives in detail

How to recognize Consolas

Lucas de Groot for Microsoft. It shipped with Windows Vista and Office 2007 as the monospaced member of the ClearType font collection.

• A slashed zero.
• Humanist, slightly narrow letters that look less mechanical than Courier New or Lucida Console.
• A true italic with cursive shapes, instead of a slanted roman.

Is Consolas free?

Ships with Windows and Microsoft Office, and is missing on Macs without Office, phones and Linux. It is not open source and cannot be served as a web font without a license, although it is now also in the Adobe Fonts library.

The alternatives on this page are open source, so you can use them on commercial sites, self-host the files and ship them in products. Read more in font licensing in plain English.

Use Inconsolata in your CSS

Put the free font first and keep sensible fallbacks behind it. Self-hosting the files is the most private and usually the fastest option.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Inconsolata";
  src: url("/fonts/inconsolata-400.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 400;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Inconsolata";
  src: url("/fonts/inconsolata-700.woff2") format("woff2");
  font-weight: 700;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Inconsolata", Consolas, "Lucida Console", Menlo, monospace;
}