How are other people getting lots of info on the screen for the F5 and 935? The "labels" like km etc I use are done with the XTINY font, seems like there will be no screen real estate on these new devices for this
I have grown to like the new fonts on the f5. My first reaction was the same that there is no font small enough to do text labels you do not need to easily read, but I have found that the watch is in general clearer with these fonts. As Jim suggests, I have used a custom font to get a smaller version for some text labels I wanted.
Is there any example to create a custom font ?!
I always used the existing fonts, and in this case, yes, I think that using a custom font will be the solution, if this is not to heavy ...
The only place I've seen anything about the basics of using custom fonts is in the programmer's guide in the SDK. You use bmfont to do it. With it, you pick a font, select a height, the characters you want included, and then generate a text file (the .fnt) and one or more image files (.png files).
When it comes to overhead, the larger the font and the more characters selected means more memory. For a large font that I only use for time for example, I only include 0 to 9, and the colon. For a smaller font, I might include all alphanumerics. (you can also specify the characters you want later in the xml.)
I use a custom font in just about all my watchfaces and some other apps too. My own "icon font". I started with the files from bmfont that were the height I wanted, and then with "pixel editing" of the image files, I drew icons, so if "P" is used with that font, it's shows the Bluetooth icon (P for phone), B for full battery, b for empty, A for alarm, N for notification, etc. The advantage over using bitmaps is that you can easily change the colors, and not need different bitmaps for different colors.
In "Not So Simple", I mixed icons in with a smaller font I user for the data fields (just added about 10 character to the font that I then pixel edited) so for a data field, I have an associated icon, that's the same size and changes color the same way, and can be displayed with the string like
Is there any example to create a custom font ?! I always used the existing fonts, and in this case, yes, I think that using a custom font will be the solution, if this is not to heavy ...
Yes,
but it seems only available on Windows and not Mac, and then I give it up ... As I only wants to have slow character, I don't need a big thing like we see in https://developer.garmin.com/index.p...m-fonts-tricks , I finally reduce my labels ...
Thank for all the valuable links above, will delve into them for implementing a custom font..
Related question: is it possible to obtain the Fenix5/FR 935 number font somewhere? I'd like to use it, but at different font sizes. The devices.xml file states the font is FENIX5_CHRONOSSEMIBOLDCONDENSED, so I'm guessing it's not a publicly available font?
