<div class="container">
  
  <div class="document">
    
    <h1>Look, a big ol' curly brace!</h1>
    
    <hr class="brace">
    
    <div class="document__content">
      
      <p>Have you ever wanted to aesthetically group together multiple elements on a page? Have you ever wanted to look classy while you do it? Now you can!</p>
      
      <p>This curly brace uses radial gradient background images to create the "v" at the center of the element, and then :before and :after pseudo selectors to create the branches.</p>
      
      <p>Try resizing the window to see how the brace will resize with it! The best part is that it only requires one element, and it doesn't interfere with any text you place inside. Personally, I like to use it for the &lt;hr&gt; element.</p>
      
    </div>
    
  </div>
  
</div>

@import "nib"

$brace-color = white;

body {
  font-family: "Montserrat", sans-serif;
  font-smoothing: antialiased;
  background-color: #fac564;
  background-image: url(https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/5908/food.png);
}

.container {
  padding: 25px 100px;
  max-width: 1200px;
  margin: 0 auto;
}

.document {
  background-color: rgba(#fac564,.5);
  padding: 40px 20px;
  border-radius: 5px;
}

.document__content {
  column-count: 1;
  @media screen and (min-width:1200px) {
    column-count: 2;
  }
  column-gap: 20px;
  padding: 20px 0;
  margin: 0 100px;
}

h1 {
  text-align: center;
  font-size: 3em;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: white;
  text-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(black,.15);
}

p {
  margin: 0 20px 20px;
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 1.5em;
  color: lighten(black,20%);
}

.brace {
  width: auto;
  min-width: 35px;
  padding-bottom: 20px;
  font-size: 2em;
  line-height: 2em;
  position: relative;
  text-align: center;
  vertical-align: middle;
  margin: 0 15px 15px;
  border: none;
  background-color: transparent;
  background-image: 
    radial-gradient(circle at 0 0, rgba($brace-color,0) 14.5px, $brace-color 15.5px, $brace-color 19.5px, rgba($brace-color,0) 20.5px),
    radial-gradient(circle at 35px 0, rgba($brace-color,0) 14.5px, $brace-color 15.5px, $brace-color 19.5px, rgba($brace-color,0) 20.5px);
  background-size: 35px 20px;
  background-position: center bottom;
  background-repeat: no-repeat;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  font-style: italic;
  color: $brace-color;
  filter: drop-shadow(0 1px 1px rgba(black,.15));
  overflow: visible;
  
  &:before {
    width: 50%;
    border-top: 5px solid $brace-color;
    border-left: 1px solid transparent; /* play with this until you like the look of it */
    border-top-left-radius: 20% 30px;
    height: 100%;
    content: "";
    absolute: top @height left -15px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin-top: -5px;
  }
  
  &:after {
    width: 50%;
    border-top: 5px solid $brace-color;
    border-right: 1px solid transparent; /* play with this until you like the look of it */
    border-top-right-radius: 20% 30px;
    height: 100%;
    content: "";
    absolute: top @height right -15px;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin-top: -5px;
  }
}