google / google/fonts

Improve braille glyphs in monospace fonts by changing to connecting box elements

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Description

All monospace console fonts can be improved by designing braille glyphs with connecting box characters.

### Given the following facts:
1) Blind people read braille with their fingers, not their eyes.
2) The primary use of braille characters in *fonts* is for rendering graphical elements and images for viewing by sighted people.
3) The 256 braille 2^(2x4) characters provide a higher resolution image-rendering alternative to the unicode box-drawing characters 2^(2x2) = 16.

### We can agree to conclude:
**Fonts which render braille glyphs with small dot-shapes do not serve their most commonly used application as well as those with braille glyphs consisting of connecting box elements.**

### Example:
![braille_inverses](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/51511737/216794627-6acf87be-b61c-40ad-9404-9ccd4e7ff9a9.png)

### Suggestion:
Font designers of monospace fonts are advised to revise the braille glyphs to render with connecting boxes.

Thank you for your attention.

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