Many of us want to move away from text. Others want more of it. This is the most extreme TUI (text user interface) project I have seen so far: https://github.com/Textualize/textual CSS-defined themes for the terminal!

This project is going in that direction too https://charm.sh/

I love this aesthetic, I often write small TUI programs and have always used curses, ncurses, or their descendants. This looks like it might be a good replacement! There’s something very compelling about a character grid. I think of it like a low-res pixel array but each pixel can also be a symbol/glyph. Wouldn’t have the same feel at all if it wasn’t monospace because you lose the grid, though changing the aspect ratio of the “pixels” seems fine, which seems to be around 1:2 on average.

Wow, Charm looks like something I might actually want to use! The aesthetics are indeed part of the attraction of modern TUIs. A refreshing level of simplicity/minimalism, which is often just the right level to aim at.