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11 months ago

Fenix 8 - Font Missing - BionicBold

Just picked up a Fenix 8 51mm today, tested my app and noticed that the fonts are not correct

The Fenix 8 51mm FW 11.60 can't find the BonicBold Font as is displaying my fallback font of RobotoRegular instead.

The screenshot below shows the same app running on the Simulator, Epix 2, and the Fenix 8 51mm. The Sim and Epix2 are clearly showing the same font (BionicBold)

There is also a difference in displayed font size as well. You will notice that everything on the Fenix 8 seems a little squashed together and the time at the top of the display has been clipped. Am I right in assuming that a vector font of size X should display as the same physical size on the watch regardless of the font selected ? (ie the RobotoRegular font is clealry larger than the BionicBold font given the same font size.

Rick
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  • 11 months ago

    If you change your app so it uses the vector font in the sim that you're using on the real f8, does the sim now look like the real f8?  And does the Epix2 look the same as on the f8?

    Not all vector fonts are available on all devices.  That's why you can do the fallbacks with the getVectorFont() call.  I think it was the venu3 vs a forerunner where I first ran into this...

    So it may not be that the real f8 is missing the font, but the device definition for the f8 used by the sim, includes a font that's not available for the device

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  • 11 months ago

    If you change your app so it uses the vector font in the sim that you're using on the real f8, does the sim now look like the real f8?  And does the Epix2 look the same as on the f8?

    Not all vector fonts are available on all devices.  That's why you can do the fallbacks with the getVectorFont() call.  I think it was the venu3 vs a forerunner where I first ran into this...

    So it may not be that the real f8 is missing the font, but the device definition for the f8 used by the sim, includes a font that's not available for the device

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  • 11 months ago in reply to Rick

    The question is, if the FW is missing the font, or is the doc wrong...

    Getting it added to the FW could take awhile, and CIQ stuff there tends to be a low priority.  It could also be it was dropped from the FW, because the FW on the f8 doesn't use this font and the doc hasn't caught up..

    What I would do as a workaround right now, is find a fallback font that looks good to you.

  • 11 months ago in reply to jim_m_58

    Hi Jim,

    The SIM is set at Fenix 8 47/51mm, ie the same as the device. The Reference Guide shows that the Fenix 8 does have BionicBold. So from this perspective, the Simulator is accurately representing the capabilities of the Fenix 8, but the real device does not match the documented capabilities. ie. It is missing the BionicBold font.

    Rick