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Yuck, the monospace font feels too dense, and dislike the serifs.

userbinator 10y ago
I think the rendering is horrible too, with plenty of colour fringing and unevenness. The monospace font reminds me of the generic "Asian product manual font" - although the individual shapes are slightly different, it has a similar feeling to MS Mincho: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-0000/widths-msmincho.png http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-...
- honkhonkpants 10y ago
  Images of the way a font was rendered on some output device are always going to look weird and wrong on another one.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
  The monospace is kind of okay, I guess, but considering the competition there's nothing special about it. Many users will be coding with colour keyword support anyway, so the idea that it's going to be super-great for Go code is strange. I found the proportional font really hard to read. It's not as if Google can't do good typography: https://fonts.google.com/about https://fonts.google.com/about So this seems like a rather self-indulgent and not wholly successful side project.
  - 4ad 10y ago
    You do realise that B&H designed the original OS X system font, Lucida Grande, right?
    - enneff 10y ago
      And also the original MacOS font, Chicago!
sjm 10y ago
It's a pity when newer typefaces don't have lighter weights — they look far better on high resolution displays than normal/regular weights, which look almost bold. My favourite example and what I use daily, Office Code Pro Light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screenshots/elixir-example.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screen...
- lygaret 10y ago
  Thanks for the recommendation! going to swap it in as a replacement for Fira Mono for a while, see how it feels.
- tomcam 10y ago
  Wow. Gorgeous.
- vertebrate 10y ago
  This is MacOS font rendering for you, in Linux normal weight looks normal
  - 4ad 10y ago
    Or rather, in macOS it looks normal and in Linux it looks too thin.
venantius 10y ago
Agree - I find these fonts deeply unpleasant, and would never choose to work with the monospaced option.
mrweasel 10y ago
It's a matter of personal opinion of cause, but I find it extremely easy on the eyes. Some one else posted a screenshot with some code displayed using the Go font, and it's extremely readable, to me at least.
romanovcode 10y ago
Yup. Horrible fonts IMO. I would never, ever work with these.
dbl9 10y ago
I love serifs and haven't found a good monospaced serif font yet. This one looks good but has some minor bugs like spacing and * not being centered vertically for the times you write OCaml or C comments. I'm trying it out anyway because I've been missing serifs in my terminal and editor for too long.

I think the rendering is horrible too, with plenty of colour fringing and unevenness. The monospace font reminds me of the generic "Asian product manual font" - although the individual shapes are slightly different, it has a similar feeling to MS Mincho: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-0000/widths-msmincho.png http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-archive/2013Jul/att-...

honkhonkpants 10y ago
Images of the way a font was rendered on some output device are always going to look weird and wrong on another one.
TheOtherHobbes 10y ago
The monospace is kind of okay, I guess, but considering the competition there's nothing special about it. Many users will be coding with colour keyword support anyway, so the idea that it's going to be super-great for Go code is strange. I found the proportional font really hard to read. It's not as if Google can't do good typography: https://fonts.google.com/about https://fonts.google.com/about So this seems like a rather self-indulgent and not wholly successful side project.
- 4ad 10y ago
  You do realise that B&H designed the original OS X system font, Lucida Grande, right?
  - enneff 10y ago
    And also the original MacOS font, Chicago!

sjm 10y ago

It's a pity when newer typefaces don't have lighter weights — they look far better on high resolution displays than normal/regular weights, which look almost bold. My favourite example and what I use daily, Office Code Pro Light: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screenshots/elixir-example.png https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sjrmanning/darkokai/screen...

lygaret 10y ago
Thanks for the recommendation! going to swap it in as a replacement for Fira Mono for a while, see how it feels.
tomcam 10y ago
Wow. Gorgeous.
vertebrate 10y ago
This is MacOS font rendering for you, in Linux normal weight looks normal
- 4ad 10y ago
  Or rather, in macOS it looks normal and in Linux it looks too thin.

venantius 10y ago

Agree - I find these fonts deeply unpleasant, and would never choose to work with the monospaced option.

mrweasel 10y ago

It's a matter of personal opinion of cause, but I find it extremely easy on the eyes. Some one else posted a screenshot with some code displayed using the Go font, and it's extremely readable, to me at least.

romanovcode 10y ago

Yup. Horrible fonts IMO. I would never, ever work with these.

dbl9 10y ago

I love serifs and haven't found a good monospaced serif font yet. This one looks good but has some minor bugs like spacing and * not being centered vertically for the times you write OCaml or C comments. I'm trying it out anyway because I've been missing serifs in my terminal and editor for too long.