# LED display show units inside **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81, perspective\ **Created:** [April 4, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715 "2025-04-04T14:09:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/1 "2025-04-04T14:09:51Z")
I was wondering if there a way or work around to customize LED component. Being a NB perhaps I do not understand the complexity to create something similar to image below. I liked the LED display but that I can not use with Labels. If I use LED components I can not show characters in it. ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/5/3/53444e318eb2e6ee3c709fb5e5c63672e35e10ef.png) ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/2 "2025-04-04T15:42:41Z")
Unless you're making a DeLorean time machine there's no reason to make your HMI look like 1970s or 1980s. At the time 7-segment displays were the best on offer (and 14-segment if you were rich) on machine interface panels. Now you have all the benefits of scalable vector fonts, beautifully designed for legibility, proper kerning (inter-character spacing, unlike the 7-segment '1' digit pushed hard-right in its display position) and high contrast. You can switch the LED Display component `segmentFormat : 14 segment` but you will have limited character support (no ° symbol). [Don't use 'Deg F'. '°F' would be right - if you have to use Farenheit.) You would have to have a second LED display to generate the label - but there's no need. In the case of the 'cleaner interface' you posted, it has two 7-segment displays and two backlit stencils showing °C and °F so they are displayed as graphics rather than 7-segment characters. (Note how they're still legible despite their small size.) If you insist, then consider using a label with an LCD font. (You'd have to install the font on the gateway.) > **[Techno \> LCD fonts | dafont.com](https://www.dafont.com/theme.php?cat=302&text=12.3145%B0F&fpp=200)** > > Archive of freely downloadable fonts. Browse by alphabetical listing, by style, by author or by popularity. ---
**Author:** ![Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Anant\_Upadhyayula](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Anant_Upadhyayula)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/3 "2025-04-04T16:58:26Z")
@Transistor - Thank you. I am not trying to recreate 70s and 80s look. I am using 14 segment LED display only. Just could not get °F into the LED object. If I can show °F and °C that would be great. I just posted the image to show the difference, it is my bad that I could not a better image on the left. ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [April 4, 2025, 6:07pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/4 "2025-04-04T18:07:18Z")
I think the closest you're going to get to the degrees symbol is `"`. > I am not trying to recreate 70s and 80s look. You'll have one if you use the LED Display component! ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Bingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Chris\_Bingham](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Chris_Bingham)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:31pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/5 "2025-04-05T16:31:07Z")
> [@Transistor](#): > > making a DeLorean time machine Recommended starting point: [https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor](https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor) ---
**Author:** ![Transistor](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/transistor/32/3380_2.png) [@Transistor](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Transistor)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/6 "2025-04-05T16:37:43Z")
> [@Chris\_Bingham](#): > > [https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor](https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor) > # Access Denied > > You don't have permission to access "[http://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor](http://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-capacitor)" on this server. It looks like I'm OUTATIME. ---
**Author:** ![Chris\_Bingham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Chris\_Bingham](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Chris_Bingham)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/7 "2025-04-05T16:44:51Z")
Responding exclusively to the text in your screenshot: > ...there are two components and every time you add a unit, it adds another label. Consider watching this video, as well as supplemental videos that accompany. > **[Views as Templates Video at Inductive University](https://inductiveuniversity.com/videos/views-as-templates/8.1)** > > Learn the basics about creating a reusable Perspective view. The idea is that you can create whatever graphic you like, with all of the complicated functionality you desire. Then, you instantiate that same view / template / widget over-and-over throughout your project as a single embedded view object, with parameters passed in. ---
**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/led-display-show-units-inside/104715/8 "2025-04-05T16:46:31Z")
> [@Transistor](#): > > Access Denied Works for me! Let's go! ![OReillyFluxCapacitor](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/3/6/36e02eb0ec4991dbff6b31d555e2aa27d107b273.jpeg)