diff --git a/src/applications/project/phid/PhabricatorProjectPHIDTypeProject.php b/src/applications/project/phid/PhabricatorProjectPHIDTypeProject.php
index 56165dd3cf..312ead52ea 100644
--- a/src/applications/project/phid/PhabricatorProjectPHIDTypeProject.php
+++ b/src/applications/project/phid/PhabricatorProjectPHIDTypeProject.php
@@ -1,97 +1,97 @@
 <?php
 
 final class PhabricatorProjectPHIDTypeProject extends PhabricatorPHIDType {
 
   const TYPECONST = 'PROJ';
 
   public function getTypeConstant() {
     return self::TYPECONST;
   }
 
   public function getTypeName() {
     return pht('Project');
   }
 
   public function newObject() {
     return new PhabricatorProject();
   }
 
   protected function buildQueryForObjects(
     PhabricatorObjectQuery $query,
     array $phids) {
 
     return id(new PhabricatorProjectQuery())
       ->withPHIDs($phids);
   }
 
   public function loadHandles(
     PhabricatorHandleQuery $query,
     array $handles,
     array $objects) {
 
     foreach ($handles as $phid => $handle) {
       $project = $objects[$phid];
 
       $name = $project->getName();
       $id = $project->getID();
 
       $handle->setName($name);
       $handle->setObjectName('#'.rtrim($project->getPhrictionSlug(), '/'));
       $handle->setURI("/project/view/{$id}/");
     }
   }
 
   public static function getProjectMonogramPatternFragment() {
     // NOTE: This explicitly does not match strings which contain only
     // digits, because digit strings like "#123" are used to reference tasks at
     // Facebook and are somewhat conventional in general.
-    return '[^\s.!,:;]*[^\s\d.!,:;]+[^\s.!,:;]*';
+    return '[^\s.!,:;{}#]*[^\s\d.!,:;{}#]+[^\s.!,:;{}#]*';
   }
 
   public function canLoadNamedObject($name) {
     $fragment = self::getProjectMonogramPatternFragment();
     return preg_match('/^#'.$fragment.'$/i', $name);
   }
 
   public function loadNamedObjects(
     PhabricatorObjectQuery $query,
     array $names) {
 
     // If the user types "#YoloSwag", we still want to match "#yoloswag", so
     // we normalize, query, and then map back to the original inputs.
 
     $map = array();
     foreach ($names as $key => $slug) {
       $map[$this->normalizeSlug(substr($slug, 1))][] = $slug;
     }
 
     $projects = id(new PhabricatorProjectQuery())
       ->setViewer($query->getViewer())
       ->withPhrictionSlugs(array_keys($map))
       ->execute();
 
     $result = array();
     foreach ($projects as $project) {
       $slugs = array($project->getPhrictionSlug());
       foreach ($slugs as $slug) {
         foreach ($map[$slug] as $original) {
           $result[$original] = $project;
         }
       }
     }
 
     return $result;
   }
 
   private function normalizeSlug($slug) {
     // NOTE: We're using phutil_utf8_strtolower() (and not PhabricatorSlug's
     // normalize() method) because this normalization should be only somewhat
     // liberal. We want "#YOLO" to match against "#yolo", but "#\\yo!!lo"
     // should not. normalize() strips out most punctuation and leads to
     // excessively aggressive matches.
 
     return phutil_utf8_strtolower($slug).'/';
   }
 
 
 }