<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div><br></div><div>I was looking through the supplies of small 7-segment LED displays recently, and suddenly realised how the displayed digits are all slanted and how uncommon it is to have them upright. We occasionally see upright LED displays, but we're so used to slanted numbers that the upright ones almost feel like they are slanted backwards.</div><div><br></div><div>What's the historic reason behind this in the optoelectronics industry? When did these displays first appear in mass-market products, were they popularized by some special kind of products or era that promoted this style?</div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Roboto,system-ui,-apple-system,system-ui,".SFNSText-Regular",Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Why oblique, w</span>hy not upright - or, for that matter, italic? ;-)</div><div><br></div><div>/mr</div><div><br></div></div>