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Add half brackets #42
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@amarakon You mean 'TOP LEFT HALF BRACKET' (U+2E22), 'TOP RIGHT HALF BRACKET' (U+2E23), 'BOTTOM LEFT HALF BRACKET' (U+2E24) and 'BOTTOM RIGHT HALF BRACKET' (U+2E25). OK, I'll add them. |
Can you make them shorter? If the half bracket is actually half the height of a regular bracket, it looks extremely weird in text. |
@amarakon I put a question on different forums about the case. According to Adam Twardoch the half brackets should touch or overlap slighly like in the Brill and Gentium (see the picture above). Can you give me example of use of half brackets? |
@amarakon Here is the information which I found on Wikipedia:
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@amarakon Another position from Unicode forum:
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Ultimately, it’s the designer’s (your) choice. But in my opinion, they look a lot better when they don’t touch or overlap. I don’t have an explanation for it, it just looks better that way in my eyes. Perhaps you could make a character variant that users could enable if they wanted to. |
Can you add the half bracket Unicode characters? These are
U+2E22
,U+2E23
,U+2E24
,U+2E25
, respectively. The name “half bracket” is misleading though because they do not actually have to be half the height of a regular bracket. Actually, it is preferable that they are less then half the height of a regular bracket, because otherwise they would look weird. The following image shows the half brackets of the EB Garamond typeface stacked on top of each other, next to regular brackets. I did not measure it, but it looks like each half bracket is about 30–40% of the height of a regular bracket.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: