Going to be 81° F & sunny here in Charlotte, NC USA today and I’m feeling colorfully Prideful
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That face is SO pretty! I was seriously tempted to upgrade my 6 just for that face alone.Going to be 81° F & sunny here in Charlotte, NC USA today and I’m feeling colorfully Prideful
It is absolutely one of my all-time favorites and helped make the decision to move on from my 4 an easy one.
Agree if there wouldn‘t be that very, very ugly AOD watchface. It destroys everything.
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I’m pretty sure they’re referring to how unreadable the AOD version of this face is. The numbers get so skinny that you cannot read them.
Call me entitled but I’m expecting WWDC to bring a complete break from this “AOD shrinks down” language
It‘s not only that. I don‘t like how the numbers move to the middle in AOD. It makes the bezels look huge. Looks so ugly.
How so? I thought the consensus was that this was some sort of OLED burn-in prevention feature (and conversely also the reason why the non-shrinking Hermès faces are noticeably dimmer than the others).
I used to think that too (and definitely pushed that theory in the Hermes thread). However I have noticed that, in watchOS 8, the Meridian and California faces no longer shrink down in AOD mode. The complications still shrink but the dial remains the same size and just dims like the Hermes faces. So it seems to be somewhat arbitrary as why some faces shrink and others don’t.
Interesting! As I use neither Meridian nor California, I didn‘t notice that.
Full disclosure: I really hate both the shrinking of the „regular“ watch faces as well as the dimness of the Hermès ones. Both of these „design decisions“ (if there is nothing else technical to it) should be revised ASAP.
Yeah as far as I know those are the only 2 non-Hermes faces that don’t shrink. California does not shrink in both full-screen and circular appearance, which is nice. Both are definitely brighter than the Hermes faces in AOD mode too.
I completely agree that the dimness of the Hermes faces is approaching the point of being a dealbreaker. That Apple has started offering faces that don’t shrink down only confirms that there is no need for the Hermes faces to be so dim. California is vastly more legible than Circulaire in AOD. It’s not even close. But Circulaire is so good looking…
I‘m using GMT most of the time now, because it is indeed so much more legible in AOD it‘s not even funny. Until this changes, the S7 will definitely be my last Hermès Watch.
Ah, gotcha. Seeing the numbers isn't an issue at all for me. To each their own.
Going default today with my new watch, but I’ll expand my pairings later on
