Suunto Software update Q2 (2.56.18) - July 14th, 2026 - Vertical 2 and Race 2

MikeC30

I do not need to wear glasses but I do struggle to read the labels on the maps purely due to a lack of contrast between the text and the background. It is also hard to pick out trails which are green on background of lighter green sometimes when outside so a different colour or a thicker line would be useful. I appreciate what everyone else has said and that my needs are not necessarily the same as most other people.

Steven Hambleton

@Svenning So I have to buy more hardware in order to use my current hardware? I’m not doing that!

Just make the fonts more legible, user test it with people that need reading glasses, test it with people that don’t. Find out what works.

sky-runner

@MikeC30 said:

It is also hard to pick out trails which are green on background of lighter green sometimes when outside so a different colour or a thicker line would be useful

Yes, that is exactly what I have complained about many times. Trails are too thin and the contrast between similar colors isn’t good enough. That is less of a problem when having a navigation route, but using the map without a navigation route is problematic due to poor contrast of “green on green” trail rendering. This applies to both Light and Dark maps. Also this partially applies even to High Contrast maps because trails are too thin and still not high contrast enough.

Tomas5

If font outline on streets was choosen better. It would be easyli readable for most people. Currently choosen outline make that font harder to read than necessary. I don’t have problem to read it with my eyes but i agree clarity is really bad on street names. With other fonts and text on suunto map i don’t have much problem. Maybe just green paths on green background could be more wide to be better seen too.

johann.fuehrer

@Audaxjoe said:

@Svenning I have the same issue with ages and loosing close up eyesight and use sunglasses with built in ready lens. It works well.

Even if Sunnto changed all the fonts increase size on map etc sooner or later glasses will be needed.

Same for me, I’m using Oakley glasses with +2 lens built in, that works very well, but I still need to use dark mode to be able to reed it easily. So there is room for improvement.

HonzaS

Maybe Suunto could make some examples of few new variants and we could vote for what we want :-).

Audaxjoe

@Steven-Hambleton that is a very strange argument. I had perfect vision up to 50. Now I need 2.5 readers at approaching 60.

They would never have a font big enough to read on a map crammed into a watch without readers for me now.

And I guess for you also as you age

Steven Hambleton

@Audaxjoe I just need 0.5x glasses but it’s the system messages which bug me the most. I run at night a lot and the fonts are small and thin which makes them blurry against a white background.

Bumping them up to a font size similar to the menu and with a black background would make them far easier to read - it wouldn’t affect those with good eyesight but would benefit those without.

maszop

The question you have to ask yourself is: does everything really need to be readable on a tiny watch screen – and while running, no less? To me, it’s obvious that some things just can’t be done or seen properly. But maybe my expectations are too low.
For me, certain compromises are just obvious

Gunnar

@maszop I agree basically but the Garmin solution is reported to be better readable. Since we have seen just the next stage in Suunto’s map design, I think it is likely that they will improve this in the next release.