Name: Aurore – Sport Colored Watch Face
Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Author: RetroElegance

Most watch faces let you pick a colour from a menu. This one makes you earn it.

THE HOUR IS PAINTED
Fourteen bands of colour run across the digits, from rose through orange to
yellow. Only the hour is coloured; the date, the fields and the rules stay
white and grey, which is what keeps the whole thing readable at arm's length.

AND THE DAY DECIDES HOW STRONG
At dawn the dial is soft. As you move it comes up, and by the time you reach
your step goal it burns. Spend the day sitting and it stays soft all evening.
Nothing is announced, nothing beeps: you simply look at your wrist and know.

IT NEVER GOES GREY
There is a floor under the colour. A grey dial reads like a fault rather than
a verdict, and a face that punishes you on a rest day is a face you take off.
Soft is not the same as dead.

THE BAR TELLS YOU WHY
A thin line under the date, filled to the same proportion, in the same colour
as the hour. It is there so you understand on the first evening instead of the
third week. Switch it off once you no longer need telling.

YOUR GOAL, NOT ANOTHER ONE
The colour is earned against the step goal your watch already knows, the one
you set in the app. You are not asked to enter it twice. Prefer intensity
minutes? One setting and the colour follows those instead.

THREE FIELDS AT THE BOTTOM
Steps, heart rate, distance, calories, battery in percent or in days, floors
climbed, intensity minutes, the date, or nothing at all. When your watch has
nothing to give, a field shows a dot rather than a zero: a zero reads like a
measurement, and a field stuck at zero looks like a fault in the face when it
is only the watch being honest.

BUILT FOR AN OLED SCREEN
The background is true black, so those pixels are switched off rather than
merely dark, and the colour costs almost nothing. In always on mode the hour
steps down to a smaller size and a single tone, and shifts a few pixels every
minute on a forty nine minute cycle so no pixel is lit far more often than its
neighbour.

NO PERMISSIONS
None. The face asks nothing of your watch and nothing of your phone.

FOUR GRADIENTS
Aurora, rose to yellow. Ocean, cyan to violet. Forest, green to yellow. Ember,
red to orange. Every one of them is earned the same way.

TELL ME WHAT YOU WOULD CHANGE
I read every review and I reply. If something bothers you, a colour, a
proportion, an option you wish existed, say so and I will look at it.