Custom fonts

Alan.raceQs over 5 years ago

I'm just starting to delve into custom fonts for my watch app and just want to confirm some points.

No support for TTF fonts.
Need to wrestle with BMFont on a character-by- character level
BMFont only supported on Windows.

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Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago in reply to Alan.raceQs +1

https://www.bmglyph.com/

May be this one for ios
jim_m_58 over 5 years ago +1

Here's a blog post by HermoT with some general stuff as well as some of his tricks:

https://developer.garmin.com/index.php/blog/post/connect-iq-pro-tip-custom-fonts-tricks

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Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago

BMF iq quite easy to use, but you will see That custom font will take lot of memory.

For less memory you can use filtrer in it and of course a string ressource for language with '' extra '' character.

I saw à post here where someone created an other app to replace bmfont, cant say about ios

Alan.raceQs over 5 years ago in reply to Shent-Aurkhan (SHN)

BMF ia a Windows app, I'm on Mac.

"a lot of memory" - any stats?

Do you have a link to "another app"?

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago in reply to Alan.raceQs

More or less 4k.

I save 2k using string ressource and using to upper to delete low case. You have to be carreful when selecting which caractères you will use

Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) over 5 years ago in reply to Alan.raceQs

https://www.bmglyph.com/

May be this one for ios

pakal over 5 years ago in reply to Alan.raceQs

I'am using https://www.71squared.com/glyphdesigner on mac os X, a bit expensive as a yearly licence but more up to date than BMGlyph ... You can buy a monthly licence ...

I used it for that watch face...
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/4d30f232-7966-41f3-af20-7056dc515867

and as Shent-Aurkhan (SHN) I use the upper case trick to keep the memory low ...

PlayItLoud over 5 years ago

I use BMFont on a mac using wine (thread somewhere about it). Works fine so far and free. Use proper filters when importing fonts. We had a forum discussion about what filter to use for displaying weekdays for different languages somewhere in the old forum.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

Here's a blog post by HermoT with some general stuff as well as some of his tricks:

https://developer.garmin.com/index.php/blog/post/connect-iq-pro-tip-custom-fonts-tricks

Alan.raceQs over 5 years ago

Thanks everybody, I'll look at running BMF in wine and see what happens