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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-...

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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!

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