ZDoom

I'm working on a custom font, and while the letters are pure white and clear, in-game they turn very very dark and ugly unless they are untranslated. Why is this?

Here's a screenshot:
(Don't worry, it's a WIP. It won't have missing characters, and will be high res.)

It could be conflicting with the palette. AFAIK fonts use palettes for translations even if their pngs.

I found the problem. Apparently ZDoom hates fonts with one color... it picks the darkest gradient for them. Having at least two colors fixes the problem.

Now, how does one define a curly brace ( { and } ) in FONTDEFS?