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    A New configuration "large fonts" to improve readibility (or for visually impaired people)

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    • stromdiddilyS Offline
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      I do vote for a in activity “large” font size. Coros has something similar which is pretty slick. Basically just gets rid of the labels for each field and ups the font size a bit.

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        @pierre-yves-colle Totally agree! I love Suunto S9B but font is very small for users over 45 year. I have a lot of friends in my age with Suunto and they have same problem. Suunto has pretty font against Garmin but very thin. Garmin´s fonts is much readable…Maybe add Bold version to Settings will improve “user friendly visibility”

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          @luboskovar

          I really hope SUUNTO will listen to us on the fonts because there is really something that could be done at a small cost, in many places there are space that could be just better used.

          Now …
          Let’s dream … but here it is a material change … so very irrealistic for the moment …
          See my last post of today … .

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            Another thing that I don’t understand is why the watch can’t show all the information that it has (sunset/sunshine time, moon phase, altimenter, barometer pressure, step, heart, battery %, date etc…) all in one screen.

            For example it could be show all the informations in the screen that you have when you press central botton in all the watch face.

            Now you can see only the date, % battery and number of notifications with a lot of black space unused… 🙄

            I hope ever in the future features…✌

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              @matteo_000

              hello matteo
              I have a slight different opinion here …
              I personally do never need all the information at a time, rather I prefer to have few but extreemly visible and easy to read rather that a tons but that give me headache to read.
              Moreover what I like super much in my BARO 9 is this “touchable” screen and the very wise approach they use it … you just press the glass and you see another secondary information …

              Look to my other proposal here :
              https://forum.suunto.com/topic/6692/my-prefered-watch-face-if-i-could-developp-it?_=1625153386673
              It took me a lot of time to think of it … and also I was experimenting it mentally each time I was walking or doinf some mountain actrivities …

              There is a logic here to have only specific info but very visible …

              • Classical approach when I’m at work => I see the date
              • When I go to bed and the next day I have a wake up constraint => I just touch the screen until I see if there is an alarm … as the alarm is big it’s easy to read
              • When I’m in mountain => I will touch the screen to put as default the altimeter or may be the barometer (I’m lucky having a 9 BARO) so I can monitor the evolution of weather if I have a doubt
              • Eventually also during a course => I could put the sunrise sunset … just to impress the girls and tell them that the day will be long 🙂 or the night … all depend the other activies foreseen 🙂 🙂 🙂
              • Finally when I arrive to the refuge => I could get a look to the performances

              So you see, this touch screen is wonderful I like it a lot and even if not all is displayed at the same time, I prefer by far an very easy way to read – here you are right SUUNTO could better use the lot of empty black place – but better reading especially on a whatch which is not very bright to economize the energy if for me more important …

              May be it’s also because I’m old 🙂

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                Just to add a comment here :

                today I did my first kite surf course. we took a dingy boat during ~20 minutes to reach a beach from where all the kites were navigating … when we did the same to return back, when I was already in the boat, I tried to activate an exercice wiht a POI which was the nautic place …
                simple …
                MISSION IMPOSSIBLE
                reason : impossible to read which was the POI corresponding to the nautic center … we were in a quite turbulent sea, the wind was ~30 knots and the waves of 1 meters with a lot of spray …
                I was totally unable to be sure abotu which POI the correct was …
                This is also in such conditions that we could be …

                hence why it is so important to improve as much as poossiblity the readibility of screens and avoid useless informations …

                In the POI the fact to write both the Suunto standard text and my personalized one (by the way the suunto text is in white and the personalized in gray, on a black screen so even less visible), so a big loose of space …
                if instead when there is a personalized text, the standard one is no more displayedn, then it free some text … so the font could be bigger and also white and eventually bold …

                Most surely I will have been able to choose the POI … I promise you that I was like in a rollercoster + with wind and sea spray in the head 🙂 🙂 🙂

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                • juhis70J Offline
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                  @mister-pyc Changed the strap of my wife’s Ambit3 (couple of weeks ago). Here’s Ambit3 and S5. “What time is it?”

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                  So, larger fonts AND a light background watch would be great. And why not an overall light background theme, for menus and other screens, too.

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                    Egika Platinum Member @juhis70
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                    @juhis70 I am also a fan of the light backgound.
                    This should be a simple change with a big impact on readability.

                    In outdoor situations with a lot of sunlight it is not so bad with the dark background though.
                    Plus the Ambit has a b/w LCD display which by default has a larger contrast

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                      @egika said in A New configuration "large fonts" to improve readibility (or for visually impaired people):

                      @juhis70 I am also a fan of the light backgound.
                      This should be a simple change with a big impact on readability.

                      Not that simple, as someone else already commented, Ambit has a on/off LCD where changing colors is just a matter of a switch, the newer models have color screens where you have to redesign the watch faces (not every color is good on every background, etc.).
                      Anyway, this is doable, just not always simple.

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                        @isazi Happy to see that this post is alive.
                        I think it is not just a matter of white screen but also font size, bold size that make the difference.
                        My concern is less with the time which is the main information and generally quite big but with the secondary informations which are fare too small whereas they could be much larger.
                        I may repeat …
                        If instead of having the time centered… if it was placed upper it will have free a big part of the rest of the screen for having a secondary information much bigger.
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                          Well, at least now white background is available for all watch faces for the S9 too.

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                            @isazi What about battery life using the white background in the S9?

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                              @cosmecosta no issues that I know about, battery life should be exactly the same.

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                              • MdzOttM Offline
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                                @juhis70 the new update brings white backgrounds!

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                                • Dimitrios KanellopoulosD Offline
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                                  @juhis70 you can now try this with a white background to be fair 🙂

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                                    @dimitrios-kanellopoulos
                                    How is it possible that at more than 50 I’m like a kid when I saw your and Isaki posts on white background and went immediatelly to install it …
                                    I confirm it works !!!

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                                    • MdzOttM Offline
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                                      @mister-pyc The white background helps, but some text is still hardly readable. Your ideas for better readability are still valid.

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                                        @mdzott

                                        Thanks a lot, I confirm this revisit of the screen and enlarging the info is definitivelly for me one of the must have I will have put on the top of the actions to do … but I’m not Suunto

                                        As soon as I have time I will create a full HTML/CSS/Javasctipt proof of concept of my suggestions that I will give to Suunto for demo and make available for a criticism … … need some time to find for this 🙂

                                        BTW with the white background I observed some matter of improvements
                                        I will detail them here : https://forum.suunto.com/topic/7110/new-white-background-watchface-some-rqs

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