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Summary: Neon tubes ftw.
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I always liked neon tube displays in sci-fi movies. Back then, when CGI wasn't used for every little thing, I liked the fact, soemone actually built alien symbols of neon tubes, that really work. I was sketching for minimalistic, square based numbers that make a cool neon tube display.

The most numbers are recognized intuitively - they look like the well known 7-segment digits without the center segment. For the 8 another encryption had to be found, to distinguish it from the 0. The = symbol it is. If it helps, it's like the 8 but just using the two voids (:) that have been stretched (=). I like this symbol here, because it goes well with the alien touch of the display. Whenever the 8 appears, the whole display apperas to be even more cryptic, as it actually is.

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