Aerial Bold — Kickstarter campaign hopes to “turn topography into typography”

Joey Lee and Benedikt Groß are experimenting with ways to train image processing algorithms to find geometric patterns and use these scalable methods to find the shapes of the alphabet over the entire earth.

“We plan to build the first global map and typeface of the earth. We’ll go through the global satellite imagery database and use some of our own image processing algorithms to find the alphabet shapes that are formed from the topology of buildings, roads, trees, etc.” — Joey Lee

The Aerial Bold campaign is live until November 13, 2014 and hopes to raise $10,000