Can buildings be turned into a font?

The pair are no strangers to ambitious art projects: they recently counted every single swimming pool in Los Angeles (43,123, if you were wondering). Now, they plan to scan all the buildings on the entire planet using OpenStreetMap before analysing each from above to find any properties that are shaped like letters.

"After the feedback from the Atlas we had a growing realization that normal people—artists, designers, citizen scientists—increasingly wanted to have ways to find features in aerial imagery," Lee tells Gizmodo.

"We thought, why not do something to explicitly show the process of making your own data, and on a large scale with open source tools?"

The couple have launched a Kickstarter to fund their "planetary search for letterforms" and have so far reached $8,792 of their $10,000 plan.

The name of the font? Aerial Bold.