# sunaku/tamzen-font

💌 Bitmapped programming font, based on Tamsyn

Repository: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/tamzen-font
Language: Ruby
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: font, monospace-font, bitmap-font
Last push: 2023-02-28T08:54:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5373, "days_push": 1282, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1067, forks 36 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:27.142394+00:00)

## What it is
Tamzen is a bitmapped monospace programming font, programmatically forked from the Tamsyn font with backported glyphs and Powerline symbol variants. It ships in multiple sizes as BDF/PCF fonts for terminals and console use.

## Use cases
- find a bitmap monospace font for my terminal
- use a programming font in the Linux console VT
- get a font with Powerline symbols for my status bar
- use a crisp pixel font in XTerm or URxvt
- configure a bitmap font in WezTerm

## When to choose
- you want a small, sharp bitmap font for terminals, editors, or the Linux console
- you need Powerline glyphs baked into a bitmap font
- you prefer pixel-perfect fonts over scalable fonts at small sizes

## When to avoid
- you need a scalable (TrueType/OpenType) font
- you need wide Unicode coverage beyond the bitmap glyphs provided
- you need a font for high-DPI displays where bitmap fonts look poor

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: bitmap-font, monospace-font, programming-font, powerline, tamsyn-fork, bdf-font, command-line, linux

## Member repositories
- sunaku/tamzen-font (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.142394+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:55:11.973046+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/sunaku/tamzen-font (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:27.142394+00:00, sha 02bc370efd49)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.