How do I get this colour font??

googjf 8 days ago

Can somebody please tell me where I can find a list of colours in monkey c for my Fenix 6X Pro, or how I can get a bright, visible cyan colour?

Thanks to FlowState and my son, I almost have a functioning tide watch face that I can read with poor eyesight.

But I have one hurdle remaining and I can't believe I haven't been able to find the answer to such a basic question.

I have a Fenix 6X Pro and I just want to have the colour "cyan" on the font on my watch face. I know it's possible, because I have used watch faces that have cyan font.

But I can't even find a list of colours that are available in Monkey C. On this forum, there are three links to the colours available, but those links are all broken.

I did find out that my watch apparently has 64 colours, but no idea what they are or what they are called in the code.

So I tried this: var cyan = 0x00FFFF; and also: var cyan = 0x80FFFF; and var cyan = 0xC0FFFF;

They all look great in the simulator, but are so faint on the watchface that I can barely see them.

0 FlowState 8 days ago

The device reference for Fenix 6X pro [and all of the older, pre-CIQ 4, 64-colour devices] shows the following palette:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/reference-guides/devices-reference/#f%C4%93nix%C2%AE6xpro6xsapphire6xprosolartactix%C2%AEdeltasapphiredeltasolardeltasolar-ballisticseditionquatix%C2%AE6x6xsolar6xdualpower

0 FlowState 8 days ago in reply to FlowState

If 0x00ffff doesn't look good to you, you could try 0x55ffff or 0xaaffff.

Since 80FFFF and C0FFFF aren't in the palette, your device [and the sim] obviously aren't displaying them, but choosing the closest colour in the palette.

If you want to preview various colours on a real device, you could try this app: Color Wheel

0 googjf 8 days ago

Thanks again so much for your help FlowState. I am so sorry I couldn't find that colour palette by myself, but I honestly searched the internet for hours (I didn't know exactly what I was looking for though so the word palette was never in my search). I think that's exactly what I need.

0 flocsy🤠 8 days ago

I'd also recommend using https://apps.garmin.com/apps/44cb7384-f0d2-4ea3-8c73-750ede036c8c to check how the colors actually look on a real device, especially on MIP devices, because they look very very different than on modern monitors.

0 googjf 8 days ago in reply to flocsy🤠

Thank you, that will be very helpful. I've already loaded my watchface into the watch about 6 times trying to get the colours roght.