As our work progressed with the seven-segment display, we began to push the boundaries of legibility and abstraction by moving toward the fourteen-segment display (FSD). This expansion added four diagonal and two vertical segments, breaking the middle horizontal segment in half, allowing for more complex characters, including the full ISO basic Latin alphabet. Often referred to as a starburst or Union Jack display, the fourteen-segment display was designed to address the limitations of the seven-segment format, which excels at representing numerals but struggles with letters and more intricate symbols.

While this addition of segments allowed for more legible and detailed representations of letters and numerals, the essence of the work began to shift. With each segment, the purity of the abstraction that initially captivated us was diluted. Where the seven-segment display offered a minimalist, almost primal visual language, the fourteen-segment display ventured into territory that felt overly complex-returning us to a legibility that, while practical, stripped away the abstraction that originally defined our exploration.

This mini project marks the culmination of our investigation into the fourteen-segment display. Though it allowed for greater expression and legibility, the core of the project was always about challenging the simplicity and limitations of a minimal framework. By stepping into the realm of complexity, we ultimately realised that the raw visual power and universal appeal of the seven-segment display had been lost. As such, we will not be continuing with this direction after completing this phase of the work.