# Improving unicode glyph appearance in KBD tags for MacOS

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-unicode-glyph-appearance-in-kbd-tags-for-macos/384419
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [September 30, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-unicode-glyph-appearance-in-kbd-tags-for-macos/384419 "2025-09-30T23:23:08Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-unicode-glyph-appearance-in-kbd-tags-for-macos/384419/1 "2025-09-30T23:23:08Z")

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The default monospace font on Macs, Menlo, has some bad unicode glyph alignment as seen here:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/2/5/5/255481a3d902626f19a8a308e3b3518477f407ca.png)

We included an improved monospace font with the WYSIWYG composer mode, JetBrains Mono, and you can see this in posts… for example:

`⌘ ⇧ .`

So we should switch to that for `<kbd>` tags too to fix this: ⌘ ⇧ .

Another issue is that we have a bit too much space between glyphs, generally the standard on MacOS is to have not quite a full space, as seen in menus throughout the OS:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/b/f/c/bfc62b2518700c8ff0b94f754155961ba98d43bb.png)

So we’ll tighten that up too for a result of

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/0/9/9/099f636aafe9e7d47ee301d648ee0d3ad9d3d628.png)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35099](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/35099)

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