Watch face: SuperText

After using a range of watch faces over the past few months, I decided to create my own.

SuperText is a text-based watch face with several extra features, including a mini sleeve-peek digital clock and a step count sliding scale.
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/125df89e-b1af-42b6-8d3c-96403502ae6e

I wear my fenix 3 twenty-four hours a day, and much of the watch face is often covered by my shirt sleeve.
To help with quickly glancing at the time without pulling my sleeve back, the sleeve-peek feature shows a small digital clock on the right-hand side of the watch face, rotated by 90° to make it fit in the small portion of the watch face that usually isn't covered by the sleeve.




Key features:
  • In low-power mode, the watch face shows the current time as text using a large custom font designed to be easily visible.
  • In high-power mode (gesture-activated by turning your wrist towards you), the sleeve-peek clock is displayed, along with an analog clock face with second hand superimposed on the text clock.
  • The top cap of the watch face shows the date, which alternates between DD MMM (25 Dec) and DDD DD (Fri 25).
  • The top cap will also show icons indicating sleep mode, and whether the watch is no longer connected to a phone via bluetooth.
  • The top cap will turn orange when battery charge level is <20%, and red when <10%.
  • The bottom cap shows current step count on a sliding scale (inspired by the Sliders watch face).
  • The sliding step scale will progressively turn green to show when the daily step goal has been achieved.




Designed for and tested on the fenix 3.

Notes:
  • The text clock will only show 12-hour time.
  • The sleeve-peek clock is designed for wearing the watch on your left wrist. (Right-wrist support coming with Connect IQ 1.2.0)
  • The bluetooth icon assumes that the default state is that watch is connected to a phone.
  • English language only for the moment (please contact me if you'd like to help test alternate languages).
  • Round watch face only for the moment.


v1.6 - Sleeve peek clock now shows 12/24hr time according to user settings, colour tweaks to improve visibility
v1.5 - <First published version> Added sleeve-peek clock and analog hands.
v1.4 - Removed analog segments to improve watch face clarity, fixed various bugs with showing text time.
v1.3 - Added progressing time segments shown behind clock face text, adjusted colours and layout, cleaned code, fixed bug on centering text lines vertically.
v1.2 - Added alternating date mode, added step count sliding scale, added icons for sleep and bluetooth disconnected
v1.1 - Added top and bottom caps showing date and steps.
v1.0 - Initial watch face, just showing text time.