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

Mister PYC

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

Mister PYC

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

juhis70

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

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.

Egika

@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

isazi

@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.

Mister PYC

@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.
et Hop … le tout est joué … for … not so many efforts

isazi

Well, at least now white background is available for all watch faces for the S9 too.

cosme.costa

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

isazi

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

MdzOtt

@juhis70 the new update brings white backgrounds!

Dimitrios Kanellopoulos

@juhis70 you can now try this with a white background to be fair

Mister PYC

@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 !!!

MdzOtt

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

Mister PYC

@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