However, afterwards I realized how many more fun character sets I now had to encode. I was very inventive (at least I think so) with this and brought the 14 segments to their limit.Īfter told me I had to encode my font in Unicode for acceptance into Google Fonts, I begrudgingly did so. The font contains a "colon.alt" glyph which was the original colon made with the 14 segments if you prefer to use it. The colon does break character but I hope not too much. I imagine most people will be using this for displaying times, and countdowns (my original purpose), so I imagined two LCD dots like on every alarm clock I've ever seen.
I also wanted to promote my "∞type" font foundry ( ) even though its website isn't ready yet -) You said you wouldn't cheat yet the colon is cheating "!" and "?" have points of varying sizes.Īt first I planned on opening issues, but after Ahlf closed mine I decided to just make my own. Puncuation marks magically have points when that's impossible given the displays, and the points are inconsistent at that. The "X" is impossible on any display unless it was just for displaying "X"'s. The "W" suggests a fourteen segment display, but none of the other characters do. Stephen Ahlf's OFL-licensed " Digital Numbers" typeface suffers from consistency issues as well. I didn't even review every character, I just critiqued the ones in the name of the font. One of the "M" characters is written like lowercase, so it would actually need two adjacent displays to work, ruining the "one cell per character" rule. The arms of the "Y" reach all the way to the top, but this is impossible considering the "M" displays for us that those are actually split between two different segments. The "T" has a small spike on the top of its stem, but other characters that use the top line have no indentation, like "F" and "A". The "C" has little segments on its terminals, but the "D" pretends those don't exist. There are many LCD fonts, but I've never seen one that meets my standards.įor example, Samuel Reynold's SFL-licensed " LCD Mono" has a number of problems. Unlike many other "digital" or "LCD" typefaces, this font is both free and true to the original.
PDF file with all glyphs available in LCD Why did I make this LCD is a libre typeface that mimicks segmented LCD displays.
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