This is a nice initiative.

But the font doesn't look great compared to what we already have in the OSS
toolbelt, e.g. Roboto, Inconsolata, Fira, Open Sans, Office Code, etc.

I was hoping for something more extravagant.  Like most
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12973716> people on Hacker News, the
font doesn't give me butterflies.

That obviously doesn't mean, why others won't find it useful in their
projects.

On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 5:25 AM, Nigel Tao <nigel...@golang.org> wrote:

> Bigelow & Holmes, the designers of the Go Fonts, are preparing an
> update to those fonts. The changes so far are:
>
> • adjusted box/chart/shade/split-integral to align vertically
> • adjusted shade characters to align vertically & horizontally (more
> or less aesthetically)
> • merged the contours of ring of Aring U+00C5 with the A
> • renamed U+02C9 -> uni02C9 in Bold and Bold Italic to conform to name
> in Regular and Italic and avoid name conflict with "macron"
> • added U+FFFD "Replacement" character
>
> If you have any other bug reports, feature requests, or just like to
> comment in general, please reply to the discussion group here, and
> I'll pass it on to B&H.
>
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