Dot LED is a watch face drawn one dot at a time.

Nine readings, arranged so you can find them

The arrangement is fixed — where things sit, how big they are, what lines up with what. That part is not yours to move, because a face you can drag around is a face nobody bothers to lay out well. What goes in each position is yours: twenty-eight readings, and each position offers the ones that actually fit it.

Ten themes, every colour real

A memory-in-pixel panel uses two bits per channel, so red, green and blue can only be 00, 55, AA or FF — sixty-four colours in total, and anything else gets snapped by the hardware. Every value in every theme is one of the sixty-four.

These are the colours the watch draws, not an impression of them. A reflective fēnix has no backlight, so in a room it reads dimmer than any screenshot can show; an AMOLED one looks like this.

Mono

Red

Green

Amber

Blue

Cyan

Yellow

Magenta

Violet

Paper

Words or pictograms

Each metric can name itself in letters or in a mark drawn on the same block of cells — a sun, a heart, a battery, a figure, a dial, a sole, a stair profile. Nothing on the face moves when you switch; only the ink changes.

Abbreviations

Pictograms

Amber · pictograms

What every label means

The face has room for three or four letters, so each reading names itself with an abbreviation. Every one the watch can print is listed here - and with the slot pickers unlocked, any of them can be put on the face.

Pictograms

Seven readings can label themselves with a mark instead of letters, drawn on the same block of cells the letters would use. These are the marks, at the size the watch draws them.

• TEMPTemperature
• BPMHeart rate
• BATTWatch battery
• NRGBody Battery
• STRStress
• STEPSSteps
• FLOORFloors climbed

Abbreviations

Each position offers only the readings that fit it, so a value is never cut short: the two beside the clock hold two characters, the top row three, and the bottom row four and five.

Weather codes

The weather field prints a condition as a four-letter code, so it fits without truncating.

Two kinds of screen, drawn two ways

A memory-in-pixel fēnix cannot show a grey darker than one particular value, so there the unlit lattice is drawn at half coverage — the only lever left to make it quieter. An AMOLED fēnix has the whole range, so its unlit cell keeps full size and sits closer to the background instead. Same layout, same glyphs, two different panels.

Memory-in-pixel · fenix 7 family

AMOLED · fenix 8 family

Labels in any colour

The labels take their own colour, separately from the values they name. White readings with amber labels, or the other way round — coloured readings with grey labels that stay out of the way. Nine hues, and the labels sit back from the values so they name a reading without competing with it.

Coloured labels

Or turned around

Free to use. Pay to change how it looks.

The face is complete without paying — every reading, every badge, the whole layout. What an unlock buys is the pickers.

How unlocking works

There is no account and no login. The code is checked on the watch itself, so nothing about you is sent anywhere.

1. Install the face Free from the Connect IQ Store. Use it as long as you like before deciding.
2. Buy a code Checkout takes a minute. The code arrives by email.
3. Paste it into the settings Garmin Connect → your watch → Watch Faces → Dot LED → Unlock code. The pickers turn on immediately.

Supported watches

Built for both panel types: memory-in-pixel on the fēnix 7 family, AMOLED on the fēnix 8.

Questions