tamzen-font vs StartTree

tamzen-font

💌 Bitmapped programming font, based on Tamsyn (by sunaku)

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StartTree

A terminal-style home page replicating the tree command . (by Paul-Houser)

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tamzen-font		StartTree
	Project
4	Mentions	7
833	Stars	145
-	Growth	-
0.7	Activity	0.0
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	about 2 years ago
Ruby	Language	CSS
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	-

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tamzen-font

Posts with mentions or reviews of tamzen-font. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-17.

Nanofont3x4: Smallest readable 3x4 font with lowercase
7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Mar 2024

It looks like it's been iterated on quite a few times. Here's an active descendant project, for anyone that might be interested: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
What's your favourite Fonts and Themes?
23 projects | /r/vim | 23 Apr 2021

tamzen for (almost) everything, saxMono for everything else.
[2bwm] 爪ㄩㄒ丨几ㄚ
6 projects | /r/unixart | 11 Mar 2021

font: tamzen by sunaku
[bspwm] books
11 projects | /r/unixporn | 26 Dec 2020

font? it's called tamzen. absolute love it but make sure to disable antialiasing for it!

StartTree

Posts with mentions or reviews of StartTree. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-27.

StartTree + cmatrix
2 projects | /r/startpages | 27 Jan 2022

Basically modified StartTree + cmatrix
Modified StartTree
1 project | /r/startpages | 9 Jan 2022

StartTree
StartTree – A terminal-style home page replicating the tree command
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Nov 2021
awesome-startpage on github
2 projects | /r/startpages | 30 Oct 2021
VS Code users can't relate
1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 23 Oct 2021

I use this right here, but you could so easily throw together an index.html and toss it in a basic nginx cobtainer
[OC] WIP: TabUI, a touch based macro launcher and system interface. Details in comments.
2 projects | /r/unixporn | 1 Feb 2021

Thanks! The app is firefox and the homescreen is StartTree.
[bspwm] books
11 projects | /r/unixporn | 26 Dec 2020

If you're into that style, there's a tool that lets you generate the page from a yaml file!

What are some alternatives?

When comparing tamzen-font and StartTree you can also consider the following projects:

nerd-fonts - Iconic font aggregator, collection, & patcher. 3,600+ icons, 50+ patched fonts: Hack, Source Code Pro, more. Glyph collections: Font Awesome, Material Design Icons, Octicons, & more

edex-ui - A cross-platform, customizable science fiction terminal emulator with advanced monitoring & touchscreen support.

zathura - a document viewer

startpage - tree inspired startpage!

Hack - A typeface designed for source code

lightdm - Display Manager

alacritty - A cross-platform, OpenGL terminal emulator.

Iosevka - Versatile typeface for code, from code.

awesome-startpage - This is a carefully compiled list of remarkable projects with the focus on startpages.

wttr.in - :partly_sunny: The right way to check the weather

polybar - A fast and easy-to-use status bar