Grid Elite: Retro 80s LCD Digital Watch Face
· v1.1.1
About
A retro seven segment LCD watch face, rebuilt digital for your Garmin.
Seven accent colours and four data slots you choose.
Grid draws a true seven segment display. Every digit is built from segments,
and the unlit ones stay faintly visible, ghosted behind the lit ones the way
they are on a real LCD, so the time reads like an 80s digital watch rather
than a font on a screen. A small seconds register sits beside the minutes like
a chronograph sub-dial, counting live, and a minute ring fills around the
outside as the hour runs down.
If you wore a 1980s LCD watch as a kid, this is that watch with a Garmin
behind it: the same eighties display, drawn properly, with your data in it.
ON THE FACE
• Seven segment time with ghosted unlit segments
• Live seconds counter in a chronograph style register
• Heart rate and outside temperature either side of the time
• Steps, distance, calories and battery along the bottom
• Step goal progress bar
• Full bleed minute ring
• Weekday and date bar
• Seven accent colours, four data slots you pick yourself
SETTINGS
Open Grid in the Connect IQ app, Garmin Connect or Garmin Express and change:
• Accent colour: orange, cyan, green, amber, red, white or magenta
• The four bottom slots, each picked from steps, distance, calories, battery,
floors climbed, active minutes, heart rate, temperature, respiration or empty
• Seconds counter on or off
ALWAYS ON
The always on display is designed separately rather than dimmed. Thin strokes,
no large lit areas, and the display shifts slightly every minute to look after
AMOLED screens. On memory in pixel displays the ghosted segments switch off so
the time stays sharp in sunlight.
This is the full version. One payment, no time limit, no banner.
Want it on your wrist before you buy? The free VX version is the same watch
face on a 5 day trial:
https://apps.garmin.com/apps/4c322002-95e3-4734-89fe-cd1db319880f
Made by Type2Fun. Questions or device requests: use the App Support button.
What's new
1.1
Accent colour and data fields are now yours to set.
COLOUR
Pick the accent from orange, cyan, green, amber, red, white or magenta. It
carries the hours, the tick ring and the date rule.
DATA FIELDS
Each of the four slots along the bottom can show steps, distance, calories,
battery, floors climbed, active minutes, heart rate, temperature, respiration,
or nothing at all.
SECONDS
The seconds counter beside the minutes can be switched off.
Set them in the Connect IQ app, Garmin Connect or Garmin Express.
1.1.1
Set the colour and the data fields on the watch itself.
Open the watch face menu on your Garmin, pick Grid, and everything is there:
accent colour, the four data slots and the seconds counter. No phone needed.
The Connect IQ app still works the same way if you prefer it.