Color codes, FACE IT app and Fenix 3

Problem is simple.

I created a png/jpg file with colors provided here
https://developer.garmin.com/index.php/blog/post/pro-tip-using-the-bitmap-palette-options
and images doesn't look good on the watch.

Example:

Here's the source image:
http://imgur.com/siMpvH7

How it looks on the watch:
http://imgur.com/xSbVx8e

I want solid colors on the watch. Even yelllow is not yellow but with red dots.
Red is grey.

One suggested The best Red is in RGB 255:48:0.

Could anybody list all color codes to use in PC which look 100% solid on the Fenix 3 watch?

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

With the f3 being 16 colors and not 64, you probably want to stick with the codes for those 16. There is a chart in the UX Guide that's in with the SDK that lists the codes for both the 16 and 64.

Brandon posted a link to this in the online doc a few days back:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/user-experience-guide/page-layout/

I see the color values for the 16 are also in the first link you posted.

bat0nas over 8 years ago

Thanks for your reply.
But did you read my question?

The problem is that color codes in that link are wrong:
https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/user-experience-guide/page-layout/

According the link red color is 0xFF0000. So that means 255 0 0 in PC:

But after I upload this picture with FACE IT red color looks grey:
http://imgur.com/xSbVx8e

Alan.raceQs over 8 years ago

Could I enquire about the meaning of "user's profile color" in the UX Doco?

The 16 color palette reserves one slot for ‘transparent’ and one for the user’s profile color,

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Not noticed that in the UX guide, be here's what I think it means:

For different sports in native apps, you can set a different color for the "user profile" for that activity as an accent. So if you are doing a run, it could be blue, but for cycling, green. So with a glance, you can see if you're recording a run when you mean to record a ride. That may take one of the 16 colors, but the color there is one of the others, but in a common "user profile" spot.

Alan.raceQs over 8 years ago

Curiouser and curiouser.

Former Member over 8 years ago

I don't know why we included that comment in the UX document. It is sort of true. On our 16 color products, outside of ConnectIQ, transparent is not used natively. They utilize the 14 colors available to ConnectIQ, and 2 colors that are dynamically swapped to display the color of the active sport profile. In ConnectIQ these two profile colors are both swapped out for transparent because having to specialize a palette for bitmaps just to access transparent was not acceptable for ConnectIQ applications. Profile color is not a concept that is available to ConnectIQ.

bat0nas over 8 years ago

So nobody know what PC color codes to use to get solid colors in Fenix 3?

I tried the suggested red 255 48 0 but still get some yellow dots.

Maybe faceit app reduces quality by resizing pictures and Fenix 3 treats artefacts as different color?

http://imgur.com/lu4TjMy

HermoT over 8 years ago

Maybe faceit app reduces quality by resizing pictures and Fenix 3 treats artefacts as different color?

That is most likely the cause.
Try to resize it yourself to 218x218 pixels, and then clean up the artefacts using some graphic editor like Photoshop or gimp.