Garmin Watch Face: Blind Date

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Introduction

Project:
Blind Date - Rectangular
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Price:
free
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Release date:
February 28, 2024
Development time:
2–3 weeks
Garmin Watch Face: Blind Date
This is my second watch face developed for Garmin watches with rectangular displays.

Since my brother-in-law had difficulty reading the relatively small text of my Watch Face: Easy, I created this watch face specifically for him. Like my Watch Face: Easy, Blind Date is written in Monkey C. Its source code is available on GitHub under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0).

Features

Available now on the Garmin Connect IQ Store

My goal was to display the most important information as large and as easy to read as possible while making the best use of the available screen space.
For this reason, only the date, time, heart rate, step count, and battery level are displayed.

Since I could build upon the experience and a simplified version of the source code from my Watch Face: Easy, development was completed in just 2–3 weeks.

The watch face comes with six predefined themes and also allows every color to be customized individually.

Depending on the watch settings, it supports both 12-hour and 24-hour time formats.
Since no localized text is used, it supports every language available on Garmin watches.

As with my Watch Face: Easy, all icons were created by me.
I once again converted them into a font so I could use the Garmin SDK's built-in font engine to color the icons.

The watch face is also available free of charge from the Garmin Connect IQ Store for Garmin Venu® Sq, Garmin Venu® Sq Music, Garmin Venu® Sq 2, and Garmin Venu® Sq 2 Music.