Are there thinner parenthesis glyphs in Bravura?

I’ve build a “quarter rest with parentheses” Playing Technique using the open parentheses glyphs found in the Time Signatures category.


I find the bracket to be too thick and I was wondering if Bravura had a thinner set of glyphs.
Or what would you suggest using?
I’m aware of the notehead set suggestion, but I need taller parentheses.

You can find the many different parentheses included in SMuFL by searching the specification here:

https://w3c.github.io/smufl/latest/tables/noteheads.html?search=parenthesis

There’s also nothing to stop you from using parentheses from any text font if you prefer.

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Nice! Some of those glyphs clearly escaped my first research.
Also using other fonts could be good, yes.
Thank you!

Forgive me to reopen this: if I go to edit the Playing Technique, then choose Time Signatures as range, I do not find all stylistic alternates found on the GitHub page.
Is there a way to browse all those symbols from the editor or should one go to GitHub, copy the Unicode number, and then browse by that?

You will only see code points for SMuFL recommended glyphs in the dialog, because the optional glyphs don’t have fixed code points in the specification. So yes, you can copy and paste them.

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