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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday November 19 2016, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the go-get-them dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @10:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 19 2016, @10:14PM (#429645)

    Courier, Times Roman, and etc would be the desirable fonts. Why not use standard fonts? Here in the Unnited States, font faces aren't even copyrightable...