Macs are not perfect even though one’s productivity is much higher with one. When things go wrong – they can sometimes really go wrong.
- Another free font with font ligatures designed for a great coding experience. It is the open source alternative to Consolas listed below. Cost - FREE (and included with Mac) Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif that comes with OS X.
- 49712 free fonts in 24540 families. Download free fonts for Windows and Mac. The home of free fonts since 1998.
- Jun 27, 2013 One of my very, very few annoyances when moving to the Mac platform was the lack of Calibri and Cambria font, so I did some research and found them after a lot of digging around. I decided to make them available for all those others who also were looking for them! Fonts included: Calibri.
One customer had issues with a critical branding font that installs fine on everyone else’s Macbook but not theirs. I now know more about fonts that I ever wanted to know especially how Microsoft fonts fit into the Mac picture. I researched dozens of websites each adding a piece to the puzzle. Here we go …
Font Cambria font download free at Fontsov.com, the largest collection of cool fonts for Windows 7 and Mac OS in TrueType(.ttf) and OpenType(.otf) format. Download Calibri font free for Windows and Mac. We have a huge collection of around 72,000 TrueType and OpenType free fonts, checkout more on. For god's sake, don't treat it like a programming font, because this is the best general-use sans-serif font in my opinion. The humanist letterforms and the balanced monospace design are surely a great combination. Not to mention, unlike many other fonts, Consolas is the one to get character shapes 'right'.
- There are 4 font stores on your Mac
- user fonts stored in /Users/youraccount/Library/Fonts
- computer wide (all accounts) fonts in /Library/Fonts
- system fonts in /System/Library/Fonts (never ever touch these)
- Microsoft Office fonts in /Library/Fonts/Microsoft (ahhh I see)
- ONLY TTF fonts work for Office – or so MS claims
- To install fonts for MS Office 2011 – don’t double click them – this installs them naturally in the user fonts
- instead – start up Font Book (use the spotlight or magnifying glass to find it quick in the upper right of your Mac)
- drag them from your Finder onto Computer (under the Collection section at the left of the Font Book app)
- A reboot triggers the Mac Font store to sync with Office. Don’t forget to reboot before ripping your hair out
- Adding fonts to the user fonts will never show up in Microsoft Office products
- Don’t assume that because a font works in lets say Word, that it will appear in Excel – it might once the cache catches up
- Microsoft font cache file can be delete so it will force a refresh – but it can be in 2 places – check both. Microsoft moved it for Office 2011 for Mac for some computers different than others
- Lion? goto finder and hold the option key and …
- click the menu Go->Library or type in a folder /Library by choosing the Go->Go to Folder option then navigate eventually to /Library/Preferences/Microsoft/Office 2011
- not there? Microsoft moved them in later releases of Office 2011 to /Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Preferences/Office 2011 – even MS’ articles are incorrect!
- also you might need to look in /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/Microsoft/Preferences/Office 2011
- when you re-start work or Excel you will now see a task completing to rebuild the cache files and if you observe the location above you will see new cache files
- Here is a link to completely remove Office on a mac and is the final puzzle piece that allowed me to solve this riddle http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2398768
Many thanks to these sites:
Category | Monospaced, sans-serif |
---|---|
Classification | Humanist |
Designer(s) | Luc(as) de Groot |
Foundry | Microsoft |
License | Proprietary |
Sample |
Consolas Font Review
Consolas is a monospacedtypeface, designed by Luc(as) de Groot. It is a part of the ClearType Font Collection, a suite of fonts that take advantage of Microsoft's ClearType font rendering technology. It has been included with Windows since Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, and is available for download from Microsoft. It is the only standard Windows Vista font with a slash through the zero character.
Characteristics[edit]
Consolas supports the following OpenType layout features: stylistic alternates, localized forms, uppercase-sensitive forms, oldstyle figures, lining figures, arbitrary fractions, superscript, subscript.
Although Consolas is designed as a replacement for Courier New, only 713 glyphs were initially available, as compared to Courier New (2.90)'s 1318 glyphs. In version 5.22 (included with Windows 7), support for Greek Extended, Combining Diacritical Marks For Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Box Drawing, Geometric Shapes was added. In version 5.32 the total number of supported glyphs was 2735.[1] In version 7.00 (as part of Windows 10 1909[2]) there are 3030 glyphs in total.
Availability[edit]
This font, along with Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Corbel and Constantia, is also distributed with Microsoft Excel Viewer, Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer,[3][4] the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack[5] for Microsoft Windows and the Open XML File Format Converter for Mac.[6]
Consolas is also available for licensing from Ascender Corporation.
Bare Bones Software has licensed the font from Ascender for use in their text editor BBEdit.
Alternatives[edit]
Consolas Font Free Mac Version
Inconsolata, an open source font inspired by Consolas, is available on Google Fonts.[7]
Font Thai Free Download
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^'Consolas - Version 5.32'. web.archive.org. 2016-04-05. Archived from the original on 2020-08-02. Retrieved 2020-08-02.CS1 maint: unfit url (link)
- ^'Font List Windows 10 - Typography'. docs.microsoft.com. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^Excel Viewer
- ^Powerpoint Viewer
- ^Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel, and PowerPoint File Formats
- ^Open XML File Format Converter for Mac 1.2.1
- ^'Google Fonts'. Google Fonts. Retrieved 2017-08-11.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Consolas. |
- Van Wagener, Anne (2005-03-04). 'The Next Big Thing in Online Type'. The Design Desk. Poynter Online. Retrieved 2006-06-05.
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