Waypoint
A Garmin-inspired watch-face studio, 2026
Overview
Waypoint is a smartwatch-face studio that runs in the browser: analog or digital, seven themes, a handful of complications, and a one-tap export to wallpaper. I built it in a weekend as an homage to the dense, legible faces on Garmin’s outdoor watches.
I kept an old Garmin on my wrist for running, and the thing I liked most was the face: a dozen readings at a glance, nothing wasted. I wanted to see how close I could get to that feeling with a canvas and an afternoon. Not a real device face, just the look of one, tuned until it felt right.
The faces
Two families. Analog is the classic dial, with a second hand that sweeps rather than steps, over markers set to bars, dots, numerals, or a stripped-back four. Digital drops the hands for a large tabular readout, the seconds ticking underneath and the accent colour running through the colon.
Seven themes carry the palette, from near-black Midnight to warm Cream and a deep Forest, each with its own accent that you can override.
The complications are the honest caveat. On a real watch they would read from the sensors; here they are sample data, a fixed battery, a step count that drifts, a heart rate that breathes so the face never looks frozen in a screenshot.
Making it yours
Most of the work went into restraint. It would have been easy to add twenty options; instead there are a few that matter, each chosen so that any random combination still looks like something you would wear. Set the family, theme, accent, markers, hands, and complications, then export the current face to a square PNG on the theme’s backdrop, ready for a wallpaper.
Try it above, then take it back to the rest of the work.
A personal homage. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Garmin.