Consolas is a monospaced typeface designed by Luc(as) de Groot.

It is the only standard Windows Vista font with a slash through the zero character.

Consolas supports the following OpenType layout features: stylistic alternates, localized forms, uppercase-sensitive forms, oldstyle figures, lining figures, arbitrary fractions, superscript, subscript.

In version 5.22 (included with Windows 7), support for Greek Extended, Combining Diacritical Marks For Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Box Drawing, and Geometric Shapes was added.

Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their text editor BBEdit.