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Update 8/3/2013: New version has tick marks along top to mark the hours, and across the bottom in 5 minute increments. Old version w/o tick marks is still available; click at left.

See this page for experimental version that also adds 2 bold tick marks on the upper bar to indicate the sunrise and sunset time.
http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=5331
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Variation of the Text Watch with the day & date in the lower right, and also thin progress bars across the top and bottom, for the day and the hour respectively.

I like the aesthetic of the text watch, and that's my usual watchface. First, I tweaked my own version of it, to reformat the day & date compared to some other ones I had found here. If you don't like the progress bars, you can get that version without them here:
http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=5066

The problem I have with the text watch though, is sometimes when I glance at my watch, I don't _need_ to know the exact time, I just want to get a general sense of how much of the day has passed, or how long I have until a meeting at the top of the hour. I wanted something visual I could interpret with a fleeting glance using my lizard brain, without having to spool up the language center. Yet, I wanted to do so in a way that would minimize the disruption of the clean text watch aesthetic.

I decided on 1 pixel tall progress bars across the top and bottom of the screen. The upper bar shows the percentage of the day that's past, the lower bar shows the percentage of the current hour that's past.

I learned how to make progress bars by examining the source code of this one:
http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=585

Aside from the progress bars, this is the same as my previous one: it includes the o's for single digit minutes, and has the days and month capitalized, without abbreviations, in 24 pt text on the lower right. To create that, I had started with the source code for this one:
http://www.mypebblefaces.com/view?fID=1433

I don't have a github account (am making these with cloudpebble.net), so I can't share my source code very easily, and pasting code into the comments section on this site doesn't seem to work. But if you give me an email or facebook address, I'd be happy to send it to you.

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