There are several characteristics of a typeface, which only a typeface designer can truly understand (unless I'm mistaken if you're one). In particular, the non-uniform ascenders, crossbar and apex of humanistic style give the font it's weird typical classic shape.
Most people would know about this non-modern look when I referred to other modern fonts in my previous reply. On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 11:39 AM, andrey mirtchovski <mirtchov...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think the original asked for what exactly is bugging you about the > font, not a general statement that somebody somewhere doesn't like it > with a link to a broad discussion on the subject of programming fonts. > Do you have anything that bothers you about them, maybe in > relationship with the list of fonts that you cited? What's not > "looking great" to you? > > On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Micky <mickylmar...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 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. > >> > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "golang-nuts" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "golang-nuts" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
