From TFA:

> Google Sans Mono was created in 2020 to support contexts that needed fixed-width characters for editorial design, at medium and large text sizes. Despite this, it soon got its first big product integration, replacing Roboto Mono in Google Chat. The only problem? Developers hated it.

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> Recognizing this critical need, a dedicated effort was launched to craft Google Sans Code, a monospaced typeface specifically designed to make code more readable. This involved thorough research into the 20 most common programming languages and how developers interact with code, aiming to make the new coding typeface more visually appealing while reducing the ambiguity of similar-looking letterforms. Based on these insights, Google tasked the Universal Thirst foundry to meticulously focus on specific letters, numbers, and operators to meet these requirements. The result is an eminently readable and surprisingly playful typeface.

> Google Sans Code launched as an open-source font in 2025, and is the typeface used to display code in Gemini.

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jorvi 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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maaarghk 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hmm, 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.

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IAmBroom 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Oh, it can't be that ba.... OMG KILL IT WITH FIRE! WE HATES IT!

--my actual reaction

	▲	silon42 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Mine: It's not that ba... oops, I have custom fonts disabled... ...yikes... ...goes back to disabling custom fonts in browser.