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What is that abomination of a curly brace. It looks like a squiggle that someone had to jot down in a rush. https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans+Code
by jorvi 10mo ago
What is that abomination of a curly brace. It looks like a squiggle that someone had to jot down in a rush.
https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans+Code https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Google+Sans+Code
- maaarghk 10mo agoHmm, my first reaction was the same as yours. But I have quite bad eyesight and looking at the "regular 400 at 16px" example on the page reminded me that I definitely sometimes find myself squinting trying to work out whether a character is a parenthesis or a brace (Droid Sans Mono). So I suppose it'd probably be quite helpful to have a brace that's very visually distinct from parenthesis even if it's not particularly pretty on its own.
- jorvi 10mo agoSquishing it down to <12px I can see that problem, even when compared to other good coding fonts like Jetbrains Mono or a font designed for readability like Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono / Next. Definitely was too quick with my judgement. Still, it just looks really out of place at bigger font sizes and it makes me wonder if there isn't a more elegant solution out there.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoOh, it can't be that ba.... OMG KILL IT WITH FIRE! WE HATES IT! --my actual reaction
- silon42 10mo agoMine: It's not that ba... oops, I have custom fonts disabled... ...yikes... ...goes back to disabling custom fonts in browser.
- rozab 10mo agoCurly braces can be really hard to distinguish from parens because they appear in the same sort of place in e.g. JS, and IDEs and highlighters often render them in stupid low-contrast colours. I hate it aesethetically, but I get the usability need.