Font in watch face

Giovo 5 days ago

Hi!

I'm developing a new watch face, but I don't understand this font issue: I'm setting the standard font as FONT_NUMBER_THAI_HOT, which as I understood is the maximum size available, but it's still very small compared to the original watch face of my device (Instinct 2 solar, BTW).

How can I use the original watch face same font with the same size ?

thanks

0 jim_m_58 5 days ago

Look t using custom fonts. You use a ttf file, and BmFont to create fonts for your app.

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-faq/how-do-i-use-custom-fonts/#how-do-i-use-custom-fonts

Here's one of my watch faces where I use different sizes of the same font for time and additional detail:

and one where I just use a custom font for the time:

0 Giovo 5 days ago in reply to jim_m_58

It's not possible using the original font?

0 jim_m_58 5 days ago in reply to Giovo

You can do something similar on the newer devices with vector/scalable fonts. but that doesn't include the Instinct2. Using custom fonts isn't that hard