Open Face

A highly configurable analog and digital watch face for Garmin Connect IQ, for round watches from the Forerunner 965 generation onward (Forerunner, fēnix, epix, enduro, Venu, vívoactive, MARQ, D2, Descent, Approach, Instinct AMOLED).

Docs and gallery: https://progressive-kiwi.github.io/open-garmin-watchface/ Configurator: https://progressive-kiwi.github.io/open-garmin-watchface/configurator.html Download: latest release

Features

Area	Options
Faces	Analog · Plain, Digital · Plain, Digital · Tactix (the original tactix: LCD time, seconds ring, battery, moon phase)
Layouts	Analog: Classic, Chronograph, Top + bottom, Minimal, Gauges, Pilot · Digital: Classic, Stacked, Big, Sport, Minimal, Side
Hands	9 hour/minute styles, 5 second-hand styles, width, length, outline, per-hand color, center cap
Dial	7 hour-tick and 4 minute-tick styles, tick length, quarter emphasis, Arabic/Roman numerals, dial ring
Fonts	System, 6 vector faces, Quartz LCD (filled/outline/thin/upright), dot matrix, pixel blocks, fine dots; unlit-segment effect
Data	4 fields × 22 sources, 2 edge gauges, status icons
Colors	10 themes + custom, 28-color MIP-safe palette, per-element overrides
Always-on	AMOLED burn-in-safe low-power face with pixel shift; MIP: full face at all times on any background (white included), seconds via partial updates
Night dimming	AMOLED: fade colors 10–90 % during Do Not Disturb / sleep mode or the sleep schedule

Every setting is available in Garmin Connect and on the watch (Watch Face → Customize). Reference: docs/settings.qmd.

Build

SDK=$(tools/setup_sdk.sh | tail -n1)
openssl genrsa -out key.pem 4096
openssl pkcs8 -topk8 -inform PEM -outform DER -in key.pem -out developer_key.der -nocrypt
tools/build.sh "$SDK" developer_key.der build all   # build/OpenFace.iq, build/OpenFace-prg.zip

Settings are defined once in tools/gen_settings.py; see docs/development.qmd.

Workflows

Workflow	Trigger	Output
CI	push, pull request	generated-file check, strict type check, .iq build
Release	tag v* or manual	GitHub release with OpenFace.iq and OpenFace-prg.zip
Docs	push to main	simulator screenshots + Quarto site on GitHub Pages

Not affiliated with Garmin. Connect IQ is a trademark of Garmin Ltd.