garmin-english-time

Garmin English Time

A minimalist, elegant, nerdy Garmin Connect IQ watch face that displays the current time as English words.

English Time

Available from Garmin Connect IQ Developer portal.

Note
English Time is part of a collection of unconventional Garmin watch faces. It has been developed for fun, as a proof of concept, and as a learning experience. It is shared as is as an open source project, with no commitment to long term maintenance and further feature development.

Please use issues to provide bug reports or feature requests.
Please use discussions for any other comments.

All feedback is wholeheartedly welcome.

English time
Features
Fonts
Build, test, deploy

English time

The English Time watch face uses English words to show the time in two rows:

First row: hour, in larger, bold font.
Second row: minutes, in smaller, regular, colored font.

The English words include:

all numerals from one to fifty nine;
o'clock to indicate a full hour (zero minutes), as in one o'clock;
oh to indicate unit minutes (no tens), as in one oh five.

Features

The English Time watch face supports the following features:

Screenshot	Description
	12-hour time 12-hour time is displayed as English words, without the AM/PM indicator. Hour word in a large, bold, white font in at the center, and minutes word(s) in a smaller, lighter, orange font below.
	Unit minutes Unit minutes (minutes below 10) are displayed with a leading `oh` word.
	Full hour Full hours (zero minutes) are displayed with the `o'clock` word instead of a minutes numeral.

Note
There are no user customization settings in this watch face.

Fonts

The English Time watch face uses custom fonts:

Asap Condensed for hour (AsapCondensed bold) and minutes (AsapCondensed light) words.

The font development process was as follows:

The fonts were downloaded from Google Fonts as True Type (.ttf) fonts.
The fonts were converted to bitmaps as .fnt and .png pairs using the open source command-line ttf2bmp converter.
The font sizes were established to match the Garmin Fenix 7X Solar watch 280x280 pixel screen resolution.
The fonts were then scaled proportionally to match other screen sizes available on Garmin watches with round screens using the included utility script.

The table below lists all font sizes provided for the supported screen resolutions.

Resolution	Shape	Element	Font	Size
148 x 205	rectangle	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	42
148 x 205	rectangle	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	21
176 x 176	semi-octagon	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	50
176 x 176	semi-octagon	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	25
215 x 180	semi-round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	51
215 x 180	semi-round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	26
218 x 218	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	62
218 x 218	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	31
240 x 240	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	69
240 x 240	rectangle	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	69
240 x 240	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	34
240 x 240	rectangle	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	34
260 x 260	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	74
260 x 260	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	37
280 x 280	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	80
280 x 280	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	40
320 x 360	rectangle	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	91
320 x 360	rectangle	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	46
360 x 360	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	103
360 x 360	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	51
390 x 390	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	111
390 x 390	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	56
416 x 416	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	119
416 x 416	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	59
454 x 454	round	Hours	AsapCondensed bold	130
454 x 454	round	Minutes	AsapCondensed light	65

Build, test, deploy

To modify and build the sources, you need to have installed:

Consult Monkey C Visual Studio Code Extension for how to execute commands such as build and test to the Monkey C runtime.

You can use the included Makefile to conveniently trigger some of the actions from the command line.

# build binaries from sources
make build

# run unit tests -- note: requires the simulator to be running
make test

# run the simulation 
make run

# clean up the project directory
make clean

To sideload your application to your Garmin watch, see developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/connect-iq-basics/your-first-app.

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