[sdiy] Why are 7-segment LED displays oblique?

[Mattias Rickardsson]

On 7 April 2018 at 17:06, <blacet at blacet.com> wrote:

> According to Wikipedia, aids readabiity.
>

Yes, I saw that... and it kind of makes you wonder what they refer to. It's
not like it's unreadable when upright, and it's not likely that other text
on panels around the display are oblique.

On 7 April 2018 at 22:46, Oren Leavitt <obl64 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/7/18 10:00 AM, Vladimir Pantelic wrote:
>
>> my guess is it's in order to have the digits closer together and still
>> fit the dot inbetween. think of the dot! :)
>>
>
> If you flip a subsequent digit unit upside down, it's dot will be above
> the dot of the previous digit. You a colon separator for a time display.


The dot might be part of the explanation, perhaps.

But that colon would be quite malformed with its upper dot at the very top.
I've never seen such a time display colon. :-)

/mr
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