[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":257},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-\u002Fblog\u002Fbloc-garmin-watchface":3,"blog-related-candidates":127},{"id":4,"title":5,"author":6,"body":7,"date":106,"dateModified":106,"description":107,"extension":108,"image":109,"imageHeight":110,"imageWidth":111,"meta":112,"navigation":113,"path":114,"qa":115,"seo":118,"sitemap":119,"stem":120,"tags":121,"__hash__":126},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fbloc-garmin-watchface.md","Bloc: A Watch Face Built From Ten Blocks of Color","Runima Team",{"type":8,"value":9,"toc":95},"minimark",[10,14,17,25,30,33,36,40,43,47,50,54,57,61,64,68,71,75,86,89],[11,12,13],"p",{},"Bloc is a block-grid watch face for Garmin Connect IQ devices: ten solid color tiles\narranged around a two-block clock. It's live on the Connect IQ Store today, free, built by\nthe same team behind Runima.",[11,15,16],{},"Where Dotpace, our other watch face, keeps almost everything quiet — a rounded\ndot-matrix digit, a handful of stats, mostly negative space — Bloc does the opposite. Every\nstat gets its own tile, and every tile gets its own color: steps in lime, heart rate in\nrose, stress in amber, body battery in sky blue. Ten tiles ring a clock built from exactly\ntwo blocks, one for the hour and one for the minute, each with its own background and\ndigit color.",[18,19,22],"callout",{"color":20,"icon":21},"info","i-ph-info",[11,23,24],{},"Bloc is a standalone watch face, not a companion app. It runs entirely on your\nwatch, works independently of the Runima web app, and doesn't sync, connect, or\nshare data with Runima — or with anything else.",[26,27,29],"h2",{"id":28},"forty-colors-four-shortcuts","Forty colors, four shortcuts",[11,31,32],{},"All ten tiles, plus the background and both time blocks, can be set independently from\nforty Tailwind-inspired tones — sixteen bright shades, sixteen deeper ones, plus white,\nblack, cool grey, warm grey and fuchsia. That's thirteen separate color pickers if you want\nto hand-tune every pixel.",[11,34,35],{},"Most people won't bother, so Bloc also ships four built-in themes that recolor the whole\nface in one tap. Vivid is bold and saturated. Muted is the same layout in deeper, quieter\ntones. Mono strips it down to white, black and grey. Rainbow sweeps a smooth hue gradient\naround the tile ring so no two tiles land on quite the same shade. Pick one and move on, or\nuse it as a starting point and override individual tiles from there — both paths use the\nsame settings menu.",[26,37,39],{"id":38},"ten-tiles-your-call","Ten tiles, your call",[11,41,42],{},"Every tile is a generic metric slot. Fill the ring with whatever you actually check: Steps,\nHeart Rate, Stress, Body Battery, Breathing Rate, Recovery Time, Watch Battery, Calories,\nActive Calories, Floors, Distance, Intensity Minutes, Pulse Ox, Weather, Notifications,\nSunrise\u002FSunset, Phone Connection — or leave a slot blank. A tile with no data shows a quiet\n\"--\", never a guess.",[26,44,46],{"id":45},"solid-by-day-outline-by-night","Solid by day, outline by night",[11,48,49],{},"Outline Mode turns every block from a filled tile into a colored border with matching text\n— same information, far fewer lit pixels. Night Mode switches to outline automatically\nbetween sunset and sunrise, so the face dims itself without you touching a setting. On\nAMOLED watches that means less light after dark; on any display, it's just a different look\nfor the same layout.",[26,51,53],{"id":52},"built-to-fit-not-just-to-scale","Built to fit, not just to scale",[11,55,56],{},"Bloc ships its own hand-tuned resources for seven screen resolutions — 218, 240, 260, 280,\n360, 416 and 454 pixels — instead of one layout stretched across all of them. That's the\ndifference between running on a 218px Fenix 5S and a 454px Fenix 8 and actually looking\nright on both. 12-\u002F24-hour and metric\u002Fimperial follow your watch's own settings; there's no\nseparate toggle for either.",[26,58,60],{"id":59},"shaped-by-feedback","Shaped by feedback",[11,62,63],{},"Bloc runs on the same rule Dotpace does: user requests decide what gets built. The forty\ncolors, the four themes, the ten open metric slots — each maps back to something people\nasked for. We build to the edge of what Connect IQ's SDK allows for a given request, and\nthis release covers everything the platform currently permits for what's been asked so far.",[26,65,67],{"id":66},"nothing-leaves-the-watch","Nothing leaves the watch",[11,69,70],{},"Bloc only reads what a tile needs to draw itself: the time, the stats you choose to show,\ncurrent weather, and your watch's last known location for sunrise and sunset. No accounts,\nno analytics, no network requests. Everything is computed and rendered on-device, and\nnothing is collected, stored off-device, or sent anywhere, including to Runima.",[26,72,74],{"id":73},"get-it","Get it",[11,76,77,78,85],{},"Bloc is available now, free, on the Connect IQ Store — search \"Bloc\" from the\nConnect IQ app on your phone or at\n",[79,80,84],"a",{"href":81,"rel":82},"https:\u002F\u002Fapps.garmin.com\u002Fapps\u002Fb2e682f1-f9f1-42bb-9a22-597295a48600",[83],"nofollow","apps.garmin.com",".",[87,88],"hr",{},[11,90,91],{},[92,93,94],"em",{},"Garmin®, Connect IQ™, and the Garmin logo are trademarks of Garmin Ltd. or its subsidiaries,\nregistered in the USA and other countries, and are used here only to describe compatibility.\nBloc is a third-party application built with the Connect IQ SDK; Runima and Bloc are\nnot affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by 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