"dseg": Original 7-Segment and 14-Segment Fonts (2014)
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The 'DSEG' font package, featuring original 7-segment and 14-segment fonts, is shared, sparking discussion on its design, applications, and related nostalgic tech topics.
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You still can't represent all lowercase letter shapes on a 14-segment display, but you can do all uppercase, so I'm assuming they went with that for consistency.
We can represent a "double storey" a like this:
It's also unclear why we couldn't have a 14 seg lower case m like this: Maybe for each character, have a link to a documented rationale.EDIT: Oh, look at the example font sheet featured in Wikipedia's Fourteen-segment-display page: it has these letters exactly as I say:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen-segment_display#/medi...
Only DSEG7 has lower case letters, and that's probably only to distinguish them from other characters or numbers (e.g. h/X, i/1, or o/0).
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[1] https://github.com/russor/ClockThing
Page six shows the alphabet: https://www.myomron.com/downloads/1.Manuals/Panel%20Indicato...
Well thought out font though, 7segg-chan is cute.
https://github.com/keshikan/DSEG?tab=readme-ov-file#sample
https://github.com/keshikan/DSEG/blob/master/resources/DSEG1...
https://github.com/mmastrac/gpsclock
Font JSON file too...
https://github.com/mmastrac/gpsclock/blob/master/fontmaker/f...