Why has Garmin switched to a thinner font on Enduro 3 vs Enduro 2 / Fenix 7?

Absolutely Agree! Plus - the 6 row Datafield ist not the same text size in the upper field as it used to be on 7.

Garmin - fix this - its one of these unnecessary faults of the 11.60 software.

Yes. the font is too thin. it looks bad. garmin fix it.

I agree: the thin font doesn’t look good. Please revert to the original font as it was on the Fenix 7. Thank you.

Agree. Thin font is hard to see. 

Disagree... I kind of like the thinner fonts. I need reading glasses for just about everything, and I can see the workout screens just fine.

You seem to be in the minority. :-)

I am not young any longer and when I saw the first reviews on Enduro 3 I wildly started to ask the reviewers in the comment section whether the text size option had any effects on data field fonts, too.

It was my last hope, which vamished, because the thin fonts seem to be Garmin’s new marketing idea.

Actually  these crazily thin  fonts are  what refrain me from swapping from Enduro 1 to 3.
Enduro 2 has a darker/washed display, so out of the question.

Funnily, the whole thing of which MIP watch I should choose is not about features any more, but apart from battery life simply the readibilty.

I am about to buy “back” a Fenix 6X Pro, and not replace my Enduro 1, just as a secondary tool in case I need maps.

But I  am going to wait for 2-3 months, maybe Garmin will do something that it has never done: change the fonts or create an option to change between fonts.

silentvoyager said:

Perhaps that makes sense for an AMOLED display too save energy

I guess that it is exactly the reason. Garmin uses the same fonts for the whole generation as they did in the past. And now F8 is more important for them than F8 Solar or Enduro 3.

silentvoyager said:

A thinner font

silentvoyager said:

Perhaps that makes sense for an AMOLED display too save energy

This also applies to a MIP display. The essential technology of the MIP is that each pixel stores its information until it needs to change. As long as it is static, it consumes no power. Only a change of status consumes power. So the fact is that a thinner/smaller font consumes less power than a thicker font when the display changes. This is because a thicker font requires more pixels to change their status.

So if you look at the pure power consumption, it makes perfect sense.

https://review-displays.co.uk/mip-displays-and-how-they-work/ 

I thought about when writing my post, but I think the difference in number of pixels changed each second when using a thick font vs a thin font is fairly insignificant for the battery consumption.

On a typical watch face, data typically changes only only once per minute, and only a tiny percentage of pixels. On most  data screens, data changes once per second, but most data fields are relatively static, so again the font shouldn't matter that much.