These kinds of displays probably are cheaper? ..though OLEDs certainly have economies of scale on their side...
Please comment if any of the above fits with some known devices?
...On the artistic side, this font looks great and could be super useful for building soft prototypes of devices... Which kind of loops back to the reason this font was released is because these devices are still perhaps quite well used?
If you need mostly numbers and only some very basic additional info, I think the classic 7 segment display is fine to display something like On/OFF, Hot, C/F etc.
For better text capabilities there are character displays which don't need many µController pins and usually allow creation of some custom symbols. [1]
Having a fully custom LCD prototype created and maybe having something like 100 pieces manufactured is surprisingly cheap. [2]
And then there's the modern OLED displays of course with full graphics support and colors, but these are usually more expensive and more difficult to drive.
[1] https://eu.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Newhaven-Display/NHD-042...
gnabgib•1mo ago
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