Aerial Bold: A Clever Typeface Crafted From Satellite Shots of Buildings

A few years ago, Benedikt Groß and Joey Lee made an atlas of all the swimming pools in Los Angeles. Big Atlas of LA Pools used satellite imagery to create an exhaustive visual overview of Angeleños' love affair with pools--all 43,123 of them. While assembling the book, Groß, a computational designer, and Lee, a geographer, noticed something else in the images: Buildings look a lot different when seen from 400 miles up. Sometimes, they look like letters. A year later, Groß and Lee launched a Kickstarter for Aerial Bold, a project devoted to finding all the human-built letters of the world.