Twelve styles. Here is where every one of them came from.
Nine of these presets are not original, and that is the best thing about them.
They descend from Rezmason/matrix, the open-source recreation Jeremy Sachs has been refining since 2015. Lilly Wachowski, who co-directed the film, was shown it by Motherboard.
"Ahhh! Those are cool. Looks as good as (better?) than the original." Lilly Wachowski, to Motherboard, on Jeremy Sachs's Rezmason/matrix. She was talking about his project, not this app.
That last sentence matters. She praised his work. She has never said a word about Matrix Desktop, and no page on this site will pretend otherwise.
What this app did was take that lineage and rebuild the glyphs from scratch. Every character set below is generated by a script in the repository from a hash-pinned font, and every one has a canonical SHA-256 you can check. Nothing was traced off a film frame.
Each style gets its own page. Every page states three things: where the look came from, what the style is trying to show you, and exactly which glyphs it draws.
Matrix Desktop originals
Styles that name a scene
Styles that are a look, not a moment
Why the credit is on the page
Most Matrix rain you find on a Mac is a video loop with a marketing page. You cannot check a video loop.
You can check this. The glyph families are generated by committed scripts, from fonts pinned by hash, and the reproduction command is in the repository. Two of the twelve use atlas images from Rezmason's project directly, under its MIT license and the public grant on the original Huberfish typeface. That chain is printed inside the app, in Third Party Notices, and it ships in both the app and the screen saver.
Nine names came from somebody else's work. Saying so costs nothing and it is the only version of this page worth reading.
Try them on your own desktop.
Free. Native. No account, no tracking. macOS 14 or later, Apple Silicon.
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