The watch face is available with 5 different backgrounds and you can select the fonts for the date, time and text according to a number of specifications.
In addition, you can freely customize all colors.
I created the background of the main theme "Dark Blue" myself in Krita. Other themes are e.g. "Fire & Ice" or "Blue Screen of Death".
Another special feature is the option to freely adjust the position of all widgets or to hide them completely.
Depending on the watch settings, the watch face supports the 12- or 24-hour format, the display of the distance traveled in kilometers or miles and the display of the current temperature as well as the maximum and minimum temperatures in °C and °F.
In addition, the date is displayed in all 26 languages supported by Garmin. These include languages with Latin (e.g. English or German), Cyrillic (e.g. Ukrainian or Russian) or Greek (e.g. Greek) characters,
as well as logograms (e.g. Chinese, Japanese or Thai)
Project: | WatchFace Easy - Rectangular |
Available at: | Garmin ConnectIQ Store |
Price: | for free |
Sourcecode: | Github |
License: | GPL-3.0 |
Tools: | VSCodium, Krita, FontBM |
Languages: | Monkey C |
Release: | June 28, 2023 |
Development time: | 2 - 3 months |
Since I couldn't find an appealing display design for rectangular displays for my Garmin Venu® Sq 2, I decided to develop one myself.
This watchface was my first project for Garmin devices and my first project in the programming language Monkey C from Garmin.
Like most of the software I develop, it is completely free and the source code is publicly available under the GNU General Public License v3.0 (GPL-3.0) on Github.
An additional special feature is the font I developed myself for this watch face to display the time. It consists only of the digits 0-9 and the letters A, M and P.
All the icons that I use in the watch face are completely self-made.
On the one hand, this includes color-customizable icons, for which I have also developed a font in which different icons are assigned to different characters. The internal font engine of the Garmin SDK can be used to color the icons.
I also created 18 icons for displaying the current weather.
Sunny / cloudless | |
Lightly cloudy | |
Mostly cloudy | |
Cloudy | |
Light rain | |
Rain | |
Heavy rain | |
Sleet | |
Light snowfall | |
Heavy snowfall | |
Thunderstorm | |
Foggy | |
Windy | |
Extreme weather (tornado, sandstorm, volcanic ash, etc.) |
The watchface is available for free in the Garmin ConnectIQ Store for Garmin Venu® Sq, Garmin Venu® Sq Music, Garmin Venu® Sq 2 and Garmin Venu® Sq 2 Music