[[["容易理解","easyToUnderstand","thumb-up"],["確實解決了我的問題","solvedMyProblem","thumb-up"],["其他","otherUp","thumb-up"]],[["缺少我需要的資訊","missingTheInformationINeed","thumb-down"],["過於複雜/步驟過多","tooComplicatedTooManySteps","thumb-down"],["過時","outOfDate","thumb-down"],["翻譯問題","translationIssue","thumb-down"],["示例/程式碼問題","samplesCodeIssue","thumb-down"],["其他","otherDown","thumb-down"]],["上次更新時間:2025-08-27 (世界標準時間)。"],[],[],null,["This page explains more advanced use cases for Watch Face Designer, including\nhow to add support for subdials, [complications](/training/wearables/complications), and color themes. To learn\nmore about getting started, view the [basics](/training/wearables/watch-face-designer/basics) guide.\n\nSubdials\n\nYou can create analog watch hands that rotate within a subsection of the watch\nface, just like a [subdial](https://www.watchtime.com/brands/glashutte-original/little-helpers-a-closer-look-at-subdials) on a real wristwatch.\n\nTo do so, complete the following steps:\n\n1. [Create an empty frame](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360041539473-Frames-in-Figma-Design) that covers the area where you've\n placed the subdial in your design:\n\n **Figure 1**: Empty frame covering a subdial slot\n2. Design your second hand inside of this frame:\n\n **Figure 2**: Second hand design sitting in a containing frame\n3. Select the subdial frame that contains the second hand. Then, in the\n **Watch Face Designer** , set **Rotate around** to \"Layer center:\"\n\n **Figure 3**: After selecting the containing frame (left), choose second hand rotation behavior (right)\n\nComplications\n\nTo add a complication slot, [add a frame to your watch face](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360041539473-Frames-in-Figma-Design).\nInside this frame, design what the complication slot will look like when it's\nempty. This forms the base design for the other types of complications, such as\nicons and text.\n\nThere are many different kinds of complications. Your watch face provides\ntemplates for each type, and the apps on a user's watch decide which template to\nuse and which data to provide for themselves. The user chooses which app goes in\nwhich complication slot.\n\nSelect your frame containing the design for the complication slot. Then, in the\n**Watch Face Designer** , change **Behavior** to \"Complication slot.\" This\nprocess creates a [component](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360038662654-Guide-to-components-in-Figma), with one variant (an empty\ndesign).\n**Figure 4**: After selecting the containing frame (left), choose the \"complication slot\" behavior (right)\n\nApply complication slot types\n\nBecause it's not that useful to include a complication slot that only supports\nthe \"empty\" type, add another type. In the Watch Face Designer window, press\n**+ Support a new type** and select \"Short text.\" Short text is a complication\ntype supported by most apps, which shows two small labels alongside an icon.\n**Figure 5**: Add support for a \"short text\" complication type\n\nThis step creates another variant for us to represent our design for this\ncomplication type. Select the \"Short text\" row to jump to it.\n\nWhen editing layers inside a complication template, a \"Behavior\" option appears.\nThis option is similar to the one on watch faces, but here you can select\nbehaviors that are specific to the type of complication that you're editing.\n\nFor this example, layers inside a short text complication can either be your\napp's title, its text, or a *single-color* icon. Single-color means that the\nicon inherits the color that you set for it in Figma.\n\nAfter you [make a rectangle](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360040450133-Shape-tools) where you want your app's icon to\nappear on the watch face, navigate to the **Watch Face Designer** window and set\n**Behavior** to \"Single-color icon:\"\n**Figure 6**: Change appearance of a complication slot to show a single-color icon\n\nNext, create two [text layers](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360039956434-Guide-to-text-in-Figma-Design). These layers represent two more\n\"short text\" slots: one for the title and one for the text:\n**Figure 7**: Two text layers shown in a complication slot layout\n\nThe preview shows how the complication is coming together. This example shows\nhow a complication might look if the calendar app were assigned to this slot.\n\nTo show text in all-uppercase characters, as shown in the following image, use\nthe [text case feature](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360039956634-Explore-text-properties#letter-case) in Figma's **Typography** menu.\n**Figure 8** : The **Typography** panel in Figma, shown with \"Uppercase\" selected\n\nNote that, unlike with [digital time](/training/wearables/watch-face-designer/basics#digital-time), there is no arbitrary font export for\ncomplication text. Complications are always drawn using the Wear OS device's\nsystem font, which can vary but is typically Roboto.\n\nTo add support for additional types of complications, or customize related\nsettings like **Default app** or whether the slot appears when the watch is in\n[ambient mode](/training/wearables/always-on), select the complication slot within your watch face:\n**Figure 9** : Watch Face Designer supports additional customization for complication slots, including setting a **Default app** and toggling whether the complication should appear in **Always-on** (system ambient) mode\n\nColor themes\n\nWithin your watch face, you can include multiple options for color themes. The\nuser can then choose the theme that they want, using the watch face picker on\ntheir watch.\n\nWatch Face Designer includes support for color themes using [Figma\nstyles](https://help.figma.com/hc/articles/360039238753-Styles-in-Figma-Design).\n\nConsider the case where, given the following watch face, you want to let the\nuser customize the colors of the watch hands and dial:\n**Figure 10**: The \"Bauhaus\" sample watch face, which provides support for changing the color of the watch hands and dial\n\nCreate the first style\n\nTo create a color style that's customizable on the watch, create a new style:\n\n1. Deselect everything on the canvas.\n2. In the right sidebar, next to **Styles** , select the **+** button.\n\nYou must name it in a specific way: \n\n Watch Face Name/Element Family Name/Descriptive Color Name/Specific Element Name\n\n| **Note:** Figma uses forward slashes (`/`) to represent folders in styles.\n\nIn this case, the sample watch face's name is `Bauhaus`, so the color starts\nwith that, followed by `Hands`, which is the element that users can customize.\nThen, give a descriptive color name, such as `Charcoal`, and specify which\nspecific element -- hour hand -- should have its color changed.\n\nPutting this all together, the final name is: `Bauhaus/Hands/Charcoal/Hours`:\n**Figure 11** : The **Create new color\nstyle** dialog, where you can add user-customizable color styles to a watch face\n\nFollow a similar process to create a custom color theme for the minute hand:\n**Figure 12** : Applying the **Charcoal** style to another element within the watch face\n\nFinally, assign these colors to the actual hands that appear on the watch face:\n**Figure 13** : Assigning the `Bauhaus/Hands/Charcoal/Minutes` theme to the watch face's minute hand\n\nAdd another style\n\nCreate a new style by changing the `Theme Name` part of the style. The following\nexample adds a new style called `Rust` (`Bauhaus/Hands/Rust/Hours`):\n**Figure 14** : A new color theme for the watch face's hands called **Rust**\n\nThe user can then switch between the \"Charcoal\" and \"Rust\" color themes on their\ndevice, and your watch face's hour and minute hands get recolored accordingly:\n\n\u003cbr /\u003e\n\n**Figure 15** : The user-facing configuration screen for selecting a color theme for the watch face's hands (left), as well as the effect of selecting **Rust** from this list (right).\n\nApply to other elements\n\nFollow similar steps to make other elements of our watch face themable. These\nthemes can be mix-and-matched, and you can use any number of color styles to\ncreate complex swappable themes:\n**Figure 16**: A more complete list of styles\n\nWith the preceding set of styles, you've provided two options for the\nhands---`Rust` and `Charcoal`---and three options for the dial---`Light`, `Dark`, and\n`Duotone`:\n**Figure 17**: User-facing configuration screen for choosing among the supported color themes for the watch face's dial"]]