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BigValue neutral symbol looks too much like negative sign

Open hughess opened this issue 1 year ago • 2 comments

Number on the right in this example is positive 6%:

CleanShot 2024-03-29 at 14 12 56@2x

Potential Fix

Make symbol wider (use em dash instead of en dash). This ends up looking a bit wide in tables, but to solve this problem it's probably worth it. CleanShot 2024-03-29 at 14 16 41@2x

Another option is making the symbol bolder, but we don't want to impact the visual effect from scanning the table quickly - the neutral items shouldn't be prominent.

Other option is changing the symbol, but that would likely disrupt the visual scan as well.

hughess avatar Mar 29 '24 18:03 hughess

Actually the table issue could be solved by using an en dash if symbolPosition=right and em dash if symbolPosition=left

hughess avatar Mar 29 '24 18:03 hughess

Have put this in as a temporary fix in #1825 until we decide on something longer term.

Another idea is to retain the up/down arrow, but color it grey. Possible all this behaviour should be configurable by the user.

hughess avatar Mar 29 '24 18:03 hughess