Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light

Turn your Garmin training companion into a classic timepiece.

Get it on Connect IQ

Version 1.0.5.1. 14 accent colors.

Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light on a fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm. Gray accent.

What it is

Our signature easy reader, now in light. Turn your Garmin training companion into a classic timepiece for business meetings and black-tie evenings.

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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, Time (digital), Calendar week. Hold a slot to open its Garmin glance, where Garmin provides one (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Hide all slots at once, from the settings or by holding the center of the dial (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Reset fields brings the three slots back to the defaults.

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. The Connect IQ Store app 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.

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

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See it on your watch

Pick your watch model and an accent color, and see Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light on it.

Accent color
Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light on a fēnix 8 47mm / 51mm / tactix 8 47mm / 51mm / quatix 8 47mm / 51mm, Blue accent.

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. Configure the watch face in the settings menu

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

    On the watch it appears as Minimal. Analog Easy Read Light.

    Five-button watches with a touchscreen

    fēnix 7, 7 Pro, 7S, 7X and their Solar editions, fēnix 8, 8 Pro and 8 Solar, fēnix 9, 9 Pro and 9 Pro Solar, fēnix E, epix (Gen 2) and epix Pro (Gen 2), Enduro 2 and 3, tactix 7 and 8, quatix 7, 7 Pro, 7X and 8, MARQ (Gen 2), Descent Mk3, Mk3i and G2, D2 Mach 1 and 2, 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 Minimal. 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 Minimal. 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 and vívoactive 5

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

    1. From the watch face, hold the lower button, B.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Swipe right or left to Minimal. 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, D2 Air X15 and vívoactive 6

    Venu 4, D2 Air X15, vívoactive 6.

    1. From the watch face, swipe left.
    2. Select Watch Face.
    3. Scroll to Minimal. 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 Minimal. Analog Easy Read Light your watch face.

  3. Or set it up from your phone

    In the Connect IQ Store app on your phone, open My Device, select Minimalist Analog Easy Read Light, then Settings.

  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 (digital), 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, the date and the alarm indicator stay. Default: Off.
    Reset fields
    An action, not a switch. Open it and choose Reset field positions: the three slots go 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). Hold the date or a Calendar week slot and the watch opens the calendar (only on watch models with a touchscreen). Time (digital) has no glance of its own, so a hold on it does nothing. Daily distance has no complication of its own either, so a hold on it opens Steps.

    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).

  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, optimized to minimize battery drain.

  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

    This face is currently available on 65 watch models, AMOLED and MIP. The Connect IQ Store offers the face only for a supported watch. If you cannot find it in the store, check which watch is currently associated with your Garmin account in the Connect IQ Store app, and that it is supported.

More questions? Read the FAQ, or ask us.

Version and what changed

VER1.0.5.1

In the store since September 28, 2026.

Holding a data slot now opens its Garmin glance, for every reading Garmin provides one for (only on watch models with a touchscreen).

Two new data fields: Time (digital) 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.

Fixed: the day name in the date window now shows correctly in Chinese.

Every version and what changed

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