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Nigel Tao, Chuck Bigelow and Rob Pike announce:
The experimental user interface toolkit being built at golang.org/x/exp/shiny includes several text elements, but there is a problem with testing them: What font should be used? Answering this question led us to today's announcement, the release of a family of high-quality WGL4 TrueType fonts, created by the Bigelow & Holmes type foundry specifically for the Go project.
The font family, called Go (naturally), includes proportional- and fixed-width faces in normal, bold, and italic renderings.
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Perhaps the most remarkable feature of the Go fonts is their license: They are licensed under the same open source license as the rest of the Go project's software, an unusually free arrangement for a high-quality font set.
The new face is similar to B&H's popular Lucida Bright & Sans typeface variants but with many adjustments for source code readability:
The Go fonts conform to the [DIN] 1450 standard by carefully differentiating zero from capital O; numeral 1 from capital I (eye) and lowercase l (ell); numeral 5 from capital S; and numeral 8 from capital B.
While the decision to package a default font with a GUI kit is sure to raise a few eyebrows, the choice of Bigelow & Holmes should come as no surprise to those familiar with the Go team's previous work, Plan 9, and it's font offering.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Saturday November 19 2016, @09:53PM
and the proportional font of course is out of the question for source code.
Probably be mandatory for the next version of Python, then.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday November 19 2016, @11:03PM
Now that you mentioned it, with the mandatory tab indentation of gofmt, you really shouldn't have too many issues using proportional fonts with Go.
Bonus points for Acme's Font command switching between the two :3
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