Garmin Watchface Blind Date

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Introduction

Project:
Blind Date - Rectangular
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Price:
free
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Release date:
February 28, 2024
Development time:
2 - 3 weeks
Garmin Watchface Blind Date
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This is my second watch face developed for Garmin watches with a rectangular display.

Since my brother-in-law had difficulty reading the relatively small font used in my Watchface Easy, I developed this watch face for him.

Features

Now available in the Garmin Connect IQ Store
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My goal was to display the most important information as large and readable as possible while making the best use of the available screen space.

Therefore, in addition to the date and time, only the heart rate, step count, and battery level are displayed.

Since I was able to build upon the experience gained from developing Watchface Easy and reuse a simplified version of its source code, development was completed relatively quickly within 2 to 3 weeks.

The watch face comes with 6 predefined themes and also allows all colors to be customized freely.

Depending on the watch settings, it supports both 12-hour and 24-hour time formats.
Since no localized text is used, it supports all languages available on Garmin watches.

As usual, all icons were created by me. Just like in my Watchface Easy, I converted the icons into a font to take advantage of the Garmin SDK's internal font engine for coloring them.

This watch face is also available free of charge in the Garmin Connect IQ Store for Garmin Venu® Sq, Garmin Venu® Sq Music, Garmin Venu® Sq 2, and Garmin Venu® Sq 2 Music.