Description
A watch face written with a brush.
The hour sits above the minute in calligraphic numerals, drawn close to the
size the original artwork was painted at. There is no colon — the stack reads
as a time on its own. The weekday and date stand at the left in the same brush
hand, the piece is signed with a seal, and a single ink stroke sweeps the
perimeter as a progress ring: pressed where it enters, full through the body,
whipped to a point at the head, so the taper travels with your progress instead
of sitting there as a constant-width band.
Every character on the face is set in that one brush hand. Time, weekday, date,
readings, captions. No second typeface at any size, and no numerals borrowed
from a system font.
WHAT YOU CAN CHANGE
• Four complication slots, each chosen from ten sources: heart rate, steps,
distance, calories, floors, active minutes, Body Battery, notifications,
battery, or off.
• The perimeter stroke measures step goal, battery, floors goal, active-minutes
goal — or is turned off entirely.
• Six colourways: Sumi (cream ink, vermilion seal), Snow, Gold, Moss, Indigo,
and Paper — dark ink on warm paper, the one light theme.
• 12/24-hour, following your watch by default.
• Month/day or day/month date order.
WHAT YOU CANNOT
There are no free colour pickers, and that is deliberate. A brush face lives or
dies on how the ink sits against the paper; arbitrary RGB makes the dry-brush
texture disappear and turns a calligraphic face into a novelty one within about
two taps. The six pairs above are the ones the artwork survives.
BUILT FOR THE PANEL IT RUNS ON
Colours are authored twice — once for AMOLED, once for the transflective MIP
panels, which render only sixty-four colours and quietly turn a vermilion seal
orange if you let them. Every MIP value is an exact hardware colour, so nothing
is approximated on the way to the screen.
On AMOLED watches the always-on screen is a dimmed, pixel-shifted version of
the same face. The perimeter stroke is omitted there, because it would be the
largest lit area on the panel. On MIP watches that code is never installed at
all.
The face shows no seconds, so nothing ticks and nothing is redrawn between
minutes. That is why it is light on your battery rather than in spite of it.
PERMISSIONS
One: sensor history, and only so that heart rate and Body Battery can show a
recent reading instead of a dash. No location, no weather, no network.
NOTES
English only. The weekday and the complication captions are painted glyphs
rather than letters set from a font — brush capitals have to be kerned as whole
words — so the face reads WED whatever language your watch is set to.
The smallest panels (under 300px) carry no captions under the readings; there
is no room for a third line under a round bezel, and the readings run larger
there instead.
MORE
My other watch faces:
https://apps.garmin.com/developer/e57f72d9-3fb7-4e58-8089-7cbf23929f80/apps
Website:
https://fjell.ballangrud.com/
Supports 83 watches across eight panel sizes.
What is new
Press and hold a complication to open the app behind it: heart rate, steps, calories, floors, active minutes, Body Battery, notifications or battery. Distance has no app to open, so it stays put. Needs a touchscreen and Connect IQ 4.2 or later.
This adds one permission, complications, which is only used to open those apps. The face still reads nothing new and makes no network requests.
Screenshots
Supported language (1)
Compatible devices (132)
Approach® S50
Approach® S70 (42mm)
Approach® S70 (47mm)
D2™ Air
D2™ Air X10
D2™ Air X15
D2™ Mach 1
D2™ Mach 1 Pro
D2™ Mach 2
D2™ Mach 2 Pro
Darth Vader™
Darth Vader™
Descent™ G2
Descent™ MK2
Descent™ MK2
Descent™ MK3 - 43mm
Descent™ MK3i - 51mm
Enduro™
Enduro™
Enduro™ 2
Enduro™ 3
Enduro™ 4
epix™ (Gen 2)
epix™ (Gen 2)
epix™ Pro (42mm)
epix™ Pro (47mm)
epix™ Pro (51mm)
fēnix® 6
fēnix® 6
fēnix® 6 Dual Power
fēnix® 6 Pro
fēnix® 6 Pro
fēnix® 6 Pro Dual Power
fēnix® 6 Pro Solar
fēnix® 6 Solar
fēnix® 6X Pro
fēnix® 6X Pro
fēnix® 7
fēnix® 7
fēnix® 7 Pro
fēnix® 7 Pro – Solar Edition (No Wi-Fi®)
fēnix® 7X
fēnix® 7X
fēnix® 7X Pro
fēnix® 7X Pro No Wi-Fi
fēnix® 8 AMOLED (43mm)
fēnix® 8 AMOLED (47mm/51mm)
fēnix® 8 Pro
fēnix® 8 Solar (47mm)
fēnix® 8 Solar (51mm)
fenix® 9 - 43 mm
fenix® 9 – 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 43 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - 51 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - Solar 47 mm
fenix® 9 Pro - Solar 51 mm
fēnix® E
First Avenger
First Avenger
ForeAthlete 245
ForeAthlete 645 Music
ForeAthlete 745
Forerunner® 165
Forerunner® 165 Music
Forerunner® 170
Forerunner® 170 Music
Forerunner® 245
Forerunner® 245
Forerunner® 255
Forerunner® 255 Music
Forerunner® 265
Forerunner® 265S
Forerunner® 570 - 42mm
Forerunner® 570 - 47mm
Forerunner® 645 Music
Forerunner® 70
Forerunner® 70
Forerunner® 745
Forerunner® 945
Forerunner® 945
Forerunner® 945 LTE
Forerunner® 955 Dual Power
Forerunner® 965
Forerunner® 970
MARQ® (Gen 2)
MARQ® Commander (Gen 2) – Carbon Edition
MARQ™ Adventurer
MARQ™ Adventurer
MARQ™ Athlete
MARQ™ Athlete
MARQ™ Aviator
MARQ™ Aviator
MARQ™ Aviator (Gen 2)
MARQ™ Captain
MARQ™ Captain
MARQ™ Commander
MARQ™ Commander
MARQ™ Driver
MARQ™ Driver
MARQ™ Expedition
MARQ™ Expedition
MARQ™ Golfer
MARQ™ Golfer
Mercedes-Benz Venu®
Mercedes-Benz Venu®
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2S
Mercedes-Benz Venu® 2S
quatix® 6
quatix® 6X
tactix® 7
tactix® 7 – AMOLED Edition
tactix® 8 – 47 mm, AMOLED
tactix® 8 – 51 mm, Solar
Venu®
Venu®
Venu® 2
Venu® 2
Venu® 2 Plus
Venu® 2 Plus
Venu® 2S
Venu® 2S
Venu® 3
Venu® 3S
Venu® 4 – 41 mm
Venu® 4 – 45 mm
vívoactive® 4
vívoactive® 4
vívoactive® 5
vívoactive® 6