That's one of the possibilities, but one can also use asymmetry to evoke an illusion of diagonality, as in this font: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/sho

That's one of the possibilities, but one can also use asymmetry to evoke an illusion of diagonality, as in this font: https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1426620/3x6-pixel-monospace https://fontstruct.com/fontstructions/show/1426620/3x6-pixel...