...what?

If the board parses braces out, there's probably a good reason for it. Perhaps a security reason, so people don't put stray PHP hacker code in their sigs or posts. I don't know what the reason might be, but I'm not going to mess with it.

I mean... this is pretty unnecessary. I really, really don't care if I see font colors. Not enough to have people posting monstrous CSS junk in their sigs or something. An MB is used to talk to people. The format used for the text by which we do the talking is next to meaningless. There's a saying about "Missing the forest for the trees". i.e., losing sight of the big picture and focusing on details that don't even matter. That probably applies here. This kind of thing doesn't matter.