Garmin Connect IQ · fēnix 7 & 8
Every line is terminal output: a prompt, a label, a value, and a caret that keeps advancing. The glyphs carry their own scan rows, and on an AMOLED panel the bright ones bloom the way a phosphor actually does — not a blur filter, but ten flat layers of light, each drawn in its own exact colour.
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Not three skins over the same arrangement — three genuinely different readings of the same idea. The boot log is the default, because it is the one that looks like something is running.
Output scrolling past. The clock sits where it just printed, and the caret rests at the end of the last line, advancing a character a second.
A steadier arrangement, and the one that shows the most: five readings stacked under a centred clock, where the other two fit four and three.
The clock inside a drawn box, corner ticks lit, the word TIME notched into the top rule. This is the one the launcher icon shows, because it is the only one that survives at icon size.
The fēnix 7 family has a reflective memory-in-pixel screen that can only show 64 colours, and no glow at all — light it does not emit cannot bloom. The fēnix 8 family is AMOLED. Each phosphor is picked separately for each, so what you see below is what the watch draws, not one image tinted twice.
Ten layers of light per glyph, each a flat band in its own colour. The brightness comes from the colour rather than from partial pixels, because a soft edge arrives at the panel as about five steps — the bands survive intact.
Flat, sharp and legible in direct sun, every colour landing on one of the 64 the panel can actually show. Coarser, because the grid is coarser — both are shown here at the size the watch draws them, never scaled to match.
Three on the boot log, four in the framed window, five on the status readout. Every line is the same width, so any reading fits any slot and the picker never has to hide one. Heart rate, steps, calories, distance, floors, intensity minutes, Body Battery, stress, Pulse Ox, respiration, battery, battery days, altitude, pressure, temperature, weather, wind, sunrise, week number and more.
Install it and wear it forever without paying: amber phosphor, the boot log, and four sensible readings. That is the face it was designed around, not a demo with the good parts removed.
Amber phosphor. Boot log layout, with heart rate, steps and battery. Every panel, every supported watch.
All seven phosphors, all three layouts, and every slot open to any reading. One payment, no subscription, no account.
You get a code, you paste it into the watch face settings in Garmin Connect, and it is checked on the watch itself. The face declares no internet permission, so it cannot phone home even if it wanted to.
A CRT Terminal code unlocks CRT Terminal. Dot LED is a separate face with a separate code — they do not carry over.