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Several example programs included with the SDK demonstrate, and the How Do I Use Custom Fonts FAQ covers it fully as well. As jim_m_58 mentioned, the Programmer's Guide was recently rewritten so things have moved around a bit.
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I wrote what you wrote in my code, I called but just used font and custom instead of timeF and tbig. Ive also loaded the font in a font folder in resources and used the app the guy in the video suggested.
1. The SYSTEM fonts (9-17) are identical to fonts (0-8). Why do the SYSTEM fonts exist? 2. For the fonts 0-4, the 520plus, 820 and 1000 are the same font height and string length. Only the 1030 is larger. 3. However, number fonts 5-8, the 520plus and 820 are the same, and the 1000 and 1030 are larger and the same. So the 1000 is inconsistent. 4.
I have a lot of .bmp Cyrillic fonts specially made for Garmin long time ago, and I definitely will use manually created fonts. BMfont is useful to understand output format. Also the same approach to save .mc files in UTF-8 led me to successful compilation and output text in Cyrillic for default fonts.
For my icon fonts, I've just been creating my own .png file using photoshop which contains images of all the icons. Then I start with a blank .fnt file I copied from a real font and I add a line by hand for each icon I want to display - setting its position, size, offsets and advance. E.g. this is one of my icon files:
It looks like x, y, width, height, xoffset, yoffset and page are being pulled from the .fnt file (although xoffset doesn't look like it's being used). I know there is some work being done on updating custom fonts right now as we also had some users run into problems when trying to use some non-Latin fonts. I'll file this as something to look into.
Using custom fonts is an option, but that will impact your apps memory. Custom fonts are also slower. For things other than watch faces, I stick to native fonts and do a few things in my code to adjust. Fonts have been a source of complaints since CIQ started. The FONT_SYSTEM_* fonts were to help the situation, but it never really happened.
Type: Memory Usage: Peak Memory: iconFont, draw all icons using separate dc.drawText() calls: 9.2: 9.8: putting all svg icons in one drawable-list and drawing all at once with one X.draw(dc) call
The new fonts are definitely easier to read, the notifications are much clearer and no larger than before with the fenix 5 fonts. So, although I now have to use custom fonts for some small widget text, I do prefer the default fonts on the 5 vs those on the 3.