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Use of funky question marks can look off depending on the font #282

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tecosaur opened this issue Oct 25, 2024 · 2 comments
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Use of funky question marks can look off depending on the font #282

tecosaur opened this issue Oct 25, 2024 · 2 comments
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Hello!

Just a little thing, but I notice that depending on the font, the ? question marks can look a little odd:

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Upon inspection, I see that these aren't normal question marks ? but actually . I see that this (U+FE56) is the "small question mark", but I'd suggest that the size is probably better handled with CSS than the use of unusual unicode characters.

@szabodanika szabodanika added the bug Something isn't working label Nov 2, 2024
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I used that funky question mark because it looks more readable when set to a tiny font size. A regular question mark looks odd when downsized. We could consider a CSV question mark icon so that it is independent of the font used. Thoughts?

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tecosaur commented Nov 6, 2024

I used that funky question mark because it looks more readable when set to a tiny font size. A regular question mark looks odd when downsized.

This sounds like a rather font-dependent thing then. I'd expect a small sans-serif question mark should be fine at small sizes, particularly if the weight was increased. I've been doing some UI tweaks to my deployment, one of which is using a normal question mark (?) and even without increasing the font weight it looks fine on my end:

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A SVG question mark icon (which I presume is what you meant by "CSV"?) would also work here, but I feel might be overkill? It would be good to see how this is with a fer different fonts.

It occurs to me we could probably also justify a bigger/more obvious question mark if they were only shown on hover.

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