![]() ![]() Let it be known that I have my ways of having fun at the weekend. And also: what about TrueType variants? What about typefaces that aren’t monospaced, destroying the seven-segment illusion? In the end, I downloaded a small arsenal of font-editing tools (ending up with FontForge, an app that was definitely not designed for the Macintosh) and modified the open-source DSEG7 for my requirements. For instance: do you draw a 6 with the top segment filled in to extend the ascender (no) do you draw a 7 with the right-top segment filled in as a giant, unwieldy serif (no) do you draw a 9 with the bottom segment filled in (if you don’t draw the top segment on the 6, also no.) While there’s a list of typefaces simulating seven-segment displays on the Segment Displays fandom wiki (a website that exists because of course it does) this doesn’t make it clear how they render numerals. Unfortunately, I’m very particular about what I like in seven-segment displays. ![]() For this, I wanted to use a seven-segment display style typeface. I’ve been in the process of editing a video with a running count of something in the corner. ![]()
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