Name: Cathode Elite – Retro CRT Pixel Watch Face
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Type2Fun

A phosphor terminal on your wrist, with a little courier in the corner who reacts to your day.

He is not decoration. He stands with one arm up when the day is ordinary,
strides once you have moved, hunches over when your body battery drops under a
quarter, and throws both arms in the air the moment your step goal falls. Four
states you read from a shape, which is faster than reading a number.

Behind him the whole dial is a cathode ray tube: one phosphor colour, three
shades of it, scanlines across the glass and a block cursor parked after the
minutes. The time and the readouts are set in a real pixel typeface with
anti-aliasing switched off, so the pixels are pixels rather than a font
pretending.

SIX PHOSPHORS
Cyan, amber, green, white, magenta and ice blue. The colour is not just the
digits: it carries the figure, the scanlines, the rules, the icons and the
always on display, so the tube is recoloured rather than tinted. Every shade is
picked from Garmin's 64 colour palette, so it stays clean on memory in pixel
screens instead of dithering. Change it in Garmin Connect and it updates on the
wrist straight away.

ON THE FACE
• Pixel seven segment time with a terminal cursor
• A figure that changes with body battery, movement and your step goal
• Heart rate, steps, calories and battery down the left
• Weekday, date and outside temperature across the top
• Step goal as a fourteen segment level meter
• CRT scanlines, switchable

ALWAYS ON
The always on display is designed separately rather than dimmed. The time keeps
the same size and the same place, the figure stays as his own outline, the
scanlines switch off, and on AMOLED the whole block shifts a pixel every minute
to look after the screen.

DEVICES
Supported on 115 devices, including fenix, Forerunner, Venu, Instinct, epix,
vivoactive, Descent, MARQ, tactix, quatix, Enduro and Approach. On the one bit
screens of the Instinct family the face repaints itself in white, where the
hierarchy comes from size instead of colour.

This is the full version. One payment, no time limit, no banner.

Want it on your wrist first? The free version is the same face in cyan:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/3eb95d8a-aeb8-4a82-aa49-61a15504ab49

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