display large colourful characters in text mode

toilet

display large colourful characters in text mode

TOIlet prints text using large characters made of smaller characters. It is similar in many ways to FIGlet with additional features such as Unicode handling, colour fonts, filters and various export formats.
simple stopwatch application

kronometer

simple stopwatch application

Kronometer is a stopwatch application.
tool to adjust advanced configuration settings for GNOME

gnome-tweaks

tool to adjust advanced configuration settings for GNOME

GNOME Tweak Tool allows the adjustment of several advanced GNOME options that can't be configured in gnome-control-center. This includes things like: * fonts used in user interface elements and titlebar * font hinting and aliasing * alternative user interface themes * changes in window management behaviour * behaviour on laptop lid close * file manager desktop icons * icons in menus and buttons
Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

foot

Fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator

The fast, lightweight and minimalistic Wayland terminal emulator. Features
Terminal Emulator for GNUstep

terminal.app

Terminal Emulator for GNUstep

This provides terminal emulation in a GNUstep environment. It gives colorized terminals with configurable fonts, and also allows users to configure shell utilities as GNUstep services.
custom vector fonts

links2

Web browser running in both graphics and text mode

Links is a graphics and text mode WWW browser, similar to Lynx. It displays tables, frames, downloads on background, uses HTTP/1.1 keepalive connections. In graphics mode it displays PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and XBM pictures, runs external bindings on other types, and features anti-aliased font, smooth image zooming, 48-bit dithering, and gamma and aspect ratio correction.