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.