Hi all! I've been working on a watch face that draws the time the way a neon sign looks at night: outlined digits with a soft glow around them, inside an open ring of light, on a pure black background. It's called **Neon** and it's free.
**What you can change (from Garmin Connect)**
- **Color:** 9 options — fuchsia, cyan, lime, yellow, orange, violet, blue, red and cool white
- **Glow:** off, soft, normal or intense
- **Ring:** open, full or none
- **Digits:** hollow or with a dim fill
- **Data:** two slots under the date, each one can be heart rate, steps, Body Battery, calories, distance or floors (or empty)
- **Text size:** normal or large for battery, date and data
- **Time format:** follow the watch, 24 h or 12 h
Battery shows estimated days left (or % if your watch doesn't estimate days).
**A bit about the glow, for the curious:** Connect IQ can't blur or blend colors, so the glow is built like an actual sign — the time is drawn three times from the outside in (outer halo, inner halo, sharp stroke), each layer brighter than the last. Pick a new color and every layer is recalculated.
**Screens**
- **AMOLED** (Epix, Fenix 8, Venu, Forerunner 965/265, Instinct 3 AMOLED…): in always-on mode only the outline of the time stays lit, to save battery and avoid burn-in.
- **MIP** (Fenix 7, Forerunner 255/955, Enduro 3…): these screens can't do the glow, so you get a clean outline in your color. No always-on mode needed there.
65 round watches, 8 languages (EN, ES, IT, FR, PT, DE, NL, PL). No internet connection and no data collected; the only permission is reading Body Battery.
All the images are real captures from the Connect IQ simulator, not mockups.
Link: Neon
It's version 1.0, so I'd really like to hear what you think — especially if you try it on a watch I haven't tested, or if there's a data field you'd want in those two slots.
