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Comment by crsmithdev | Hacker News Reader

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

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-...

Images of the way a font was rendered on some output device are always going to look weird and wrong on another one.

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

So this seems like a rather self-indulgent and not wholly successful side project.

You do realise that B&H designed the original OS X system font, Lucida Grande, right?

And also the original MacOS font, Chicago!

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/screen...

Thanks for the recommendation! going to swap it in as a replacement for Fira Mono for a while, see how it feels.

Wow. Gorgeous.

This is MacOS font rendering for you, in Linux normal weight looks normal

Or rather, in macOS it looks normal and in Linux it looks too thin.

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.

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.

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

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

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