Settings Every Object Shares

Each object's own Learn page explains the settings that are special to it. The rows on this page appear on most watch face objects, so they're explained once here.

Transform

At the top of the Inspector for every object.

Row	What it does
Position	Where the object sits, in pixels on the watch's screen. You can also drag the object in the Scene.
Size	The object's box, width and height. Drag the handles in the Scene to resize. Text, gauges and complications all draw inside this box.
Rotation	Turns the object, in degrees.
Pivot	The point it rotates and scales around, from 0 to 1 across the box. 0.5, 0.5 is the centre.

Ambient

Every object has an Ambient dot in the Hierarchy: filled shows it in ambient mode, a hollow ring hides it. New objects start hidden, except clocks. See Ambient Mode.

Objects that draw a colour also have an ambient look section:

Row	What it does
colour	The colour used in ambient mode instead of the normal one. Often a plain grey or white.
tint overlay	A tint laid over the object in ambient only, for pictures and hands.
reset to match Active	Clears the ambient changes so it looks the same as normal.

Show when

Shows the object only while a real watch value meets a condition, and hides it otherwise.

Row	What it does
show when	Which value to watch: battery level or temperature, weather, heart rate, steps or step goal, wrist tilt, moon phase, unread notifications, language, or AM/PM. (none) means always shown.
condition	The comparison and the number to compare against, for example battery below 20. For language, the exact locale such as en_US.

The Scene and Preview follow the values you set in the Simulate tab, so you can test it without a watch.

Dynamic tint

For objects with a tint (pictures, hands), the colour can change with a watch value too.

Row	What it does
dynamic tint	Which value drives the colour. (none) keeps the tint fixed.
style	Switch: one colour until the value crosses a threshold, then another (a battery icon that turns red when low). Ramp: the colour slides through your colours as the value moves across a range (green to red as heart rate climbs).
condition / threshold	For Switch: when to change colour.
from / to	For Ramp: the values where the first and last colours show.
tint when true	For Switch: the second colour.

Color Style

Under a colour field, to let the wearer pick colours on the watch. See Color Styles and Flavors.

Row	What it does
style	Binds this colour to a Color Style instead of a fixed colour.
colour #	Which colour in the style's option to use, counting from 0. Handy when one style holds several colours (hour, minute and second hand).

Drop shadow

On pictures, hands and similar objects. Every shadow follows the face's light, set in the Background tab under Shadows.

Row	What it does
drop shadow	Draws a soft shadow under the object. It costs a second draw on the watch, so it's off by default except on a clock's hands.
own light	Ignore the face-wide light and use this object's own settings, for example to push the hour hand's shadow further than the minute hand's so they look stacked.
angle	Which way the shadow falls, in degrees clockwise from 12 o'clock. 135 is down and to the right.
distance	How far the shadow sits from the object, in pixels. Further looks higher above the dial.
softness	Blur, in pixels. 0 is a hard edge; anything above 0 is baked into a blurred picture when you build.
colour	The shadow's colour and strength.

Text settings

Objects that draw text (Text, clocks, dates, readouts) share these:

Row	What it does
font	The typeface. Empty uses the watch's default font.
font size	The size to draw at. 0 means automatic: half the box's height.
h. align / v. align	Where the text sits inside the box, left to right and top to bottom.
outline	A real outline around every letter (Wear OS 4 and newer).
outline colour / outline width	The outline's colour, and how far it reaches outside each letter, in pixels.