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@hellcp hellcp commented Dec 6, 2025

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On watches with a color display the watchface icons can be colorful! Watchapp
icons will be translated into a 4 color grayscale icon with transparency,
which is a great opportunity for black and white icon with antialiasing.
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Not quite sure what this last line means "a great opportunity for black and white icon with antialiasing", seems a bit grammatically odd and I'm not sure what it's referring to either. Does the watch automatically translate coloured icons to dithered ones? If so, how does it do that?

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Colour watches have 4 shades of gray: White, Light Gray, Dark Gray and Black. There's no dithering involved, the watch uses the colours in the icon to translate to those 4 colours based on the colours brightness. In typical pebble icon you would see the two grays to be mostly used for antialiasing, even if that's not the only use of this feature

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