BRUTAL by irek
There’s another cool watchface on the Rebble App Store!
Read more about Brutal on BRUTAL
Go check it out in the App Store!
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Emery screenshots:
Aplite screenshots:
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Update alert!
irek just released version 4.6 of BRUTAL!
Release notes
Add more keywords to watchface metadata like “seconds”. Recently reading reddit/r/pebble I learned that people are trying to find watchfaces with support for seconds and there are not that many. Someone suggested to search using “seconds” keyword.
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I think this was the final final release. And today it reached 200 likes 
Overall I’m super happy with this project but in retrospective the decision to render big font from bitmap image was a mistake that resulted in many extra lines of code and memory issue. It should have used PDC.
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I love this! The first face I used on Emery when I got my test unit 
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Update alert!
irek just released version 5.0 of BRUTAL!
Release notes
Recreate watchface from scratch. Port text features from Jealous watchface including weather.
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Read more about v5 release which brings weather to Brutal but at the huge cost of rewriting everything from scratch BRUTAL
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Using this immediately as well and the weather is such a welcome addition that I fear Brutal won’t be off my watch for a very long time. This is great work like always!
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Update alert!
irek just released version 5.2 of BRUTAL!
Release notes
Make text placeholders case insensitive where possible
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Update alert!
irek just released version 5.3 of BRUTAL!
Release notes
Avoid vibrations when quiet time is active
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This change was introduced in response to GitHub issue Do not Bluetooth disconnect buzz when in quiet time · Issue #4 · ir33k/brutal · GitHub
@irek I really like this watchface, but find the small text almost impossible to read, especially on the PT2. It really is tiny, especially the text in the left column, which I really can’t read, but even the bottom row text is still pretty small for my aging eyes. If possible, it would be great if you could make it all bigger.
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Thanks for your feedback.
Since PT2 was released I was watching for peoples feedback, mostly on reddit. I personally don’t own PT2. But from what I saw the bigger screen with higher resolution has smaller pixels. Which makes the small fonts even smaller than on OG Pebbles. BTW the tiny text on the left was introduces mostly as decoration. Readability issue there is a know accepted issue.
Unfortunately it’s not as easy as “make font bigger” as all those font’s are custom made, draw pixel by pixel with icons etc. Changing one font size affects size and spacing of other fonts. It’s difficult to make it right and the whole thing with Brutal is that proportions are just right.
At the moment I don’t have proper dev environment setup. Also this will be time consuming change and I’m busy with other projects right now. But most probably I will go back to my Pebble watchfaces when the Pebble Round 2 will start shipping. Then I will adjust Brutal.
My feedback so far from other people is:
- Make small fonts bigger on PT2
- Slightly bigger margins, it’s to close to screen edges
- Make it possible to hide small fonts and only use big numbers in the middle
- Change defaults configuration to have weather enabled by default
- Try collaborating with TimeStyle watchface author to include Brutal as one of the fonts
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