The monospaced example reminds me of TeX-produced CS papers at first glance. I'll have to give it some time.
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Re: Go fonts
#32While you are at it, can you guys complete the APL symbols?
Re: Go fonts
#33Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.
Re: Go fonts
#34I don't see an advantage over using native system fonts. As far as I know you don't need a license to use fonts installed on the system running the application. Why does the font need to be bundled? The wide spread adoption of this is going to make go programs stick out like a sore thumb.
Re: Go fonts
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Font licensing is complicated and Chuck is a friend. It was very important to us that Go programmers be unencumbered when distributing programs that use this font.
Why is it not possible to just use the system font for these UI elements?
Re: Go fonts
#36Elements of the proportional font, like the little foot on the 'a' remind me of Lucida Grande. Lucida Grade was the original OS X system font, which B & H also developed. This is not their first rodeo, its all about licensing.
Re: Go fonts
#37From the designers of the Lucida typeface family. The monospace serif typeface has pleasant, natural thick-thin strokes, giving it a substantial, typewriter-y appearance instead of the weak lines in most monospace serif typefaces -- remember Courier New?
The monospaced font looks like an iteration on Luxi Mono [0], fixing some of the major issues (lowercase-ell vs. one, uppercase-o vs. zero).
The proportional font likewise looks very similar to Luxi Sans [1], the main differences I see being again the lowercase-ell and zero glyphs.
Re: Go fonts
#38pretty soon you will not be able to compile go without it being written in the correct font. thus making go code the same no matter where it is written or displayed!
Re: Go fonts
#39Re: Go fonts
#40Elements of the proportional font, like the little foot on the 'a' remind me of Lucida Grande. Lucida Grade was the original OS X system font, which B & H also developed. This is not their first rodeo, its all about licensing.
Definitely has a Lucida Grande feel to it, which, if I recall correctly, was one of the font on Plan9. The Go Mono isn't close to Lucida Grande Mono, but certainly looks like an interesting update.