📟 16seg

Preview of what this repo does. Inspired by Da Sul's Dribbble post.

Setup

This repo uses Parcel to bundle all the files and InvlineSVG to inline SVG markup in the examples.

Run the following commands and open the localhost URL Parcel provides in the CLI.

$ npm i

$ npm start

How to use

Static

// Add the `16seg.svg` to your markup
// and select it.
const svg = document.querySelector('svg');

// Create the display passing in the SVG.
const display = createSegmentDisplay(svg);

// Show a letter on the display!
display.show('A');

Animated

const svg = document.querySelector('svg');

// Pass in optional options.
const display = createSegmentDisplay(svg, {
  loop: true,
  delay: 100,
});

// Ta-da!
display.showSequence(['A', 'B', 'C']);

How it works

The SVG file

The 16seg.svg file contains all the segments as SVG polygons. Each polygon in the SVG is in a specifc order.

Font

A font is a key value map of characters and an array of numbers that say which segment should be highlighted. The current font is built in.

const font = {
  'A': [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9, 13],
  'B': [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 11, 13, 15],
  'C': [0, 1, 2, 3, 6, 7]
  //...
}

It can also contain arbitrary strings that represent certain segment configurations.

const font = {
  //...
  'CURL1': [0, 1, 2, 10, 11],
  'CURL2': [1, 2, 3, 4, 12, 13],
  'CURL3': [4, 5, 6, 14, 15],
  'CURL4': [0, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9],
  //...
}

This is quite a brute force approach, but it works! However, maybe this can be done in a smarter way like using bytes and math. Let me know if so!