You know how you can sometimes see other shapes in objects, the way a cloud looks like a giant slice of pizza or the cracks in the sidewalk form the shape of a giraffe or something? Well, two people are now trying to make something font-tastic out of the shapes we see on the Earth's surface.
Designer Benedikt Groß and geographer Joey Lee are on a mission to find all of the letterforms, or alphabet shapes, found in the topology of buildings, roads, rivers, trees and lakes on Earth. They're hoping to make the first typeface out of objects on Earth, which is going to have the clever name of "Aerial Bold." "Cosmic Sans" would have been a good name too, I'm just saying.
The duo will accomplish this by combing through all of the satellite imagery of the earth available using the open-source map OpenStreetMap, which is vector-based, unlike Google Maps or Bing, which are image-based, according to Gizmodo. This will allow them to more easily search for the alphabet around the world.
