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freakified / TimeStylePebble

A stylish, customizable face for the Pebble Time.
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Light weight LECO option #46

Open tilden opened 8 years ago

tilden commented 8 years ago

Now that there are bold/light options for the default font (Avenir), LECO could conceivably have the same options

foscoj commented 8 years ago

OK, tried to play around with this task and got stuck on the font creation for the fctx lib, missing the LECO svg :-(

How did you create the other ones? Am I missing a download somewhere on pebbles page?

Unfortunately the LECO light doesn't seem to be free of license as thee regular seems to...

Why did you need to use the fctx lib there? (Apart from being a cool kid :-))

tilden commented 8 years ago

It previously used images to display the numbers, but I needed to switch to FCTX in order to add Quick View support, which required the ability to scale the time up and down.

In order to create fonts, you need to use pebble-fctx-compiler to convert the SVG fonts into FCTX's "ffont" format. You'll probably also need to edit the SVG fonts themselves to make the digits all the same width (large-digit faces tend to look weird with varying character widths). In the case of non-thin LECO, I needed to keep recompiling the font and tweaking the metrics until it looked okay.

foscoj commented 8 years ago

Where do I Get the thon leco svg?

tilden commented 8 years ago

I got it from MyFonts, but you're right that the lightweight version isn't on there.