Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light

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Version 1.0.5. 14 accent colors.

Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light on a Descent Mk3i. Teal accent.

What it is

A light mood for your wrist: friendly numbers you can read in a glance, the warmth of a classic dress watch, and your Garmin data whenever you want it.

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YOUR DATA

Three slots, each set to any of: Heart rate, Steps, Calories, Distance, Floors, Active minutes, Battery, Body Battery, Stress, Notifications, Altitude, Temperature, Sunrise and sunset. Or switch them all off when the dial should just be a dial.

Battery as percent or days remaining.

DATE AND EXTRAS

Choose a three-day date wheel or a simple single date.

Optional alarm indicator (shows a discreet icon when an alarm is active).

Dark, battery-friendly always-on view, so a light dial never costs you battery at rest.

SET UP ON THE WATCH

Change everything from the watch's own settings menu. No phone needed. Garmin Connect works too if you prefer.

BUILT FOR YOUR SCREEN

Artwork drawn for each resolution, not stretched to fit. Tuned separately for AMOLED and MIP, so it looks right on the watch you actually own.

SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE

The interface and the day names on the dial are translated into 32 languages. Numbers and times follow your watch settings, including thousands separators, 12 or 24 hour time, and metric or imperial units.

Designed for legibility first. Every element earns its place.

14 accent colors. 65 watch models, new Garmin models supported at launch.

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Accent colors

14 accent colors, picked in the face's settings. Here they are on the dial they sit on.

MIP screens show 64 colors, and each accent takes the nearest one they can show.

How to use it

  1. Install it

    Open the Connect IQ Store app on your phone, search for "Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light" and install it. The face reaches your watch at the next sync. Or start from its Connect IQ store page.

    Watches that carry the Connect IQ Store can install it on the watch itself, too.

  2. Make it your watch face

    The way in depends on your watch. These are Garmin's own steps, from the owner's manuals. Pick your watch.

    Five-button watches with a touchscreen

    fēnix 7, 8, 9 and E, epix, Enduro, tactix, quatix, MARQ, Descent, D2 Mach, Forerunner 165, 170, 265, 570, 70, 955, 965 and 970.

    1. From the watch face, hold the middle-left button. It is called MENU on fēnix and UP on Forerunner.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Press UP or DOWN to scroll to Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light.
    4. Press START, the upper-right button.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select Customize, then Settings.
    Five-button watches without a touchscreen

    Forerunner 255, 255 Music, 255s and 255s Music, Instinct 3 AMOLED 45 mm and 50 mm.

    1. From the watch face, hold the middle-left button. It is called UP on Forerunner and MENU on Instinct.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Press UP or DOWN to scroll to Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light.
    4. Press START, the upper-right button. On Instinct it is called GPS.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select Customize, then Settings.

    These watches have no touchscreen, so the hold gestures are not there. Everything else works the same.

    Venu 3, Venu 2, Venu Sq and vívoactive 5

    Venu 3 and 3S, Venu 2, 2S and 2 Plus, Venu Sq, vívoactive 5.

    1. From the watch face, hold the lower button, B.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Swipe right or left to Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light.
    4. Tap it to make it your watch face. To change its settings, select the edit icon, then Settings.
    Venu 4, Venu X1, D2 Air X15 and vívoactive 6

    Venu 4, Venu X1, D2 Air X15, vívoactive 6.

    1. From the watch face, swipe left.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Scroll to Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light.
    4. Swipe left on it.
    5. Select Apply to make it your watch face, or Settings to change it.
    Approach S50, S70 and D2 Air X10

    Approach S50, Approach S70, D2 Air X10.

    Open the page called Customizing the Watch Face in your owner's manual. On these watches you browse the faces by swiping up or down, and select Apply to make Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light your watch face.

  3. Or set it up from your phone

    In the Garmin Connect app, open your device, then Appearance, then Watch Face. Find Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light under Connect IQ, open it and select Settings.

    The Connect IQ Store app has the same settings: My Device, then the face.

  4. Choose your settings

    A lot of settings, in the order the watch shows them.

    Top (12 o'clock), Left (9 o'clock), Bottom (6 o'clock)
    Pick what each data slot shows. Choose from: Heart rate, Steps, Calories, Daily distance, Floors, Active minutes, Battery, Body Battery, Stress, Notifications, Altitude, Temperature, Sunrise/Sunset, Time, Calendar week. Or pick Off to leave the slot empty. Default: Steps at the top, Body Battery on the left, Calories at the bottom.
    Accent color
    The color of the three slots. Choose from: Black, Gray, Silver, Bronze, Gold, Blue, Red, Green, Teal, Orange, Yellow, Forest Green, Purple, Peach. Every accent is a darker shade, picked for the light dial. Default: Blue.
    Simple date
    On shows a single date. Off shows the three-day wheel: yesterday, today, tomorrow. Default: Off.
    Battery in days
    On, the Battery slot shows days remaining, as "3d". Off shows percent. Default: On.
    Alarm indicator
    On shows a small icon on the dial while an alarm is set. Default: On.
    Hide data slots
    On hides all three slots. The dial, the hands and the date stay. Default: Off.
    Reset fields
    An action, not a switch. It puts the three slots back to Steps, Body Battery and Calories. Every other setting stays as you set it.

  5. Hold for the full glance

    Hold a data slot and the watch opens that reading's own Garmin glance: the heart rate page for Heart rate, the steps page for Steps, and so on (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Daily distance, Time and Calendar week have no glance of their own, so a hold on them does nothing.

    Hold the center of the dial to hide the data slots, and hold it again to bring them back (only on watch models with a touchscreen). The Hide data slots setting follows, so your choice survives a restart and shows in Garmin Connect.

    Hold is the one gesture a watch face gets, and it comes from the touchscreen. On watches without one (Forerunner 255, 255 Music, 255s and 255s Music, and the Instinct 3 AMOLED 45 mm and 50 mm) the buttons belong to the watch: press DOWN from the watch face to reach the glances. Switch Hide data slots in the settings instead of holding the center.

  6. What the readings show

    Sunrise/Sunset shows whichever comes next: the sunrise before dawn, the sunset through the day, the next sunrise after dusk.

    Time follows the 12 or 24 hour setting of your watch.

    Calendar week follows ISO 8601 and shows as W and the number. Weeks start on Monday, and week 1 is the week with the first Thursday of the year.

    Numbers use the thousands separator of your watch, and the units it is set to (metric or US/imperial). Temperature comes from the watch's own sensor or its weather, as the watch provides it.

  7. Always-on and battery

    Always-on switches to a dark dial with the same hands, numbers and date, so the light face costs no battery at rest. The second hand and the data slots rest until you raise your wrist.

  8. Your language

    The settings and the day names on the dial are in 32 languages, following the language of your watch.

  9. Check your watch

    It runs on 65 watch models, AMOLED and MIP. The face reads the screen type when it starts and draws for it. The Connect IQ store page lists every supported model: check yours before you install.

Version and what changed

VER1.0.5

Hold a data slot to open its Garmin glance (only on watch models with a touchscreen).

Two new data fields: Time and Calendar week.

New accent color: Bronze.

New setting: Hide data slots. Hold the center of the dial to toggle it (only on watch models with a touchscreen).

Reset fields brings the data slots back to the defaults.

Further optimized for AMOLED battery life. Other various small improvements.

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