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These look exactly like the Plan9 fonts (which IIRC were also by Bigelow&Holmes). Ironically, the Plan9 folk seem to shun TrueType in favor of bitmap fonts... I'm pretty sure the Raspberry Pi Plan9 image I'm running at my home office only has bitmap fonts installed.
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Why is it not possible to just use the system font for these UI elements?
I help maintain/develop an app that allows users to draw and simulate logic circuits on a canvas. Text plays a minor but important role for labeling various components, showing bit and hex values, etc. The app uses system fonts, and it's a huge mistake. The sizes and exact layout and connectivity of various logic blocks depends on text size, and when that changes (and it does from platform to platform), it leads to l…
If Go maintainers decide to change the font metrics you will have the same problem. Distributing your own font (as you have mentioned) is the right way to go.
The monospace font reminds me of the console on old Sun workstations running SunOS. It's pretty hideous. The alphanumerics feel rather slapdash, like this whole thing was put together by the foundary on a Friday afternoon and made to meet the minimum requirements but without much love.
Did anyone else try to use it in xterm or rxvt-unicode?
In xterm and Emacs the vertical spacing seems to be too small, making it look pressed together.
In rxvt-unicode the only problem is that the renderer displays it stretched horizontally like a short but wide block.
Wish they had talked to Fabrizio Schiavi..
I'm surprised that people haven't commented on the implicit story here: the intention to deliver the "Shiny" cross-platform graphical toolkit for Go. If that happens, Go becomes one of the very few programming languages with a default cross-platform UI library.
> very few programming languages You mean apart from Tcl, Python, Java, Factor, just about every Smalltalk apart from GNU Smalltalk, Racket, possibly Ruby…
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Being self consistent is not important, being constant with the environment is important.
That ship sailed long ago. I fired up the mail client in windows 10 for the first time in a while yesterday and it had this weird galaxy background. It looked like an access app an amateur would throw together.
Wish they had talked to Fabrizio Schiavi..
You mean the Pragmata font?