<html><body>According to Wikipedia, aids readabiity.<div><br></div><div>Some other interesting facts here too...</div><div>https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven-segment_display<br></div><div><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>-------- Original Message ----------<br><br>my guess is it's in order to have the digits closer together and still fit the <br>
dot inbetween. think of the dot! :)<br><br>
On 07/04/18 16:25, Mattias Rickardsson wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
> <br>
> I was looking through the supplies of small 7-segment LED displays recently, and <br>
> suddenly realised how the displayed digits are all slanted and how uncommon it <br>
> is to have them upright. We occasionally see upright LED displays, but we're so <br>
> used to slanted numbers that the upright ones almost feel like they are slanted <br>
> backwards.<br>
> <br>
> What's the historic reason behind this in the optoelectronics industry? When did <br>
> these displays first appear in mass-market products, were they popularized by <br>
> some special kind of products or era that promoted this style?<br>
> <br>
> Why oblique, why not upright - or, for that matter, italic? ;-)<br>
> <br>
> /mr<br>
> <br>
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