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#fontography — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #fontography, aggregated by home.social.

  1. PetaPixel: You Can Spell Your Name is Aerial Images Thanks to NASA. “Following on from Earth Day (April 22), NASA has publicized a tool that allows people to spell out their name or any word they want using Landsat satellite images.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/28/petapixel-you-can-spell-your-name-is-aerial-images-thanks-to-nasa/
  2. Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/26/sweetfont/
  3. Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/26/sweetfont/
  4. Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/26/sweetfont/
  5. Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/26/sweetfont/
  6. Spotted in my Calishat Snaps: Sweetfont. From the page description: “Sweetfont helps you find the perfect Google Font by exploring axes like playfulness, elegance, and warmth on interactive XY pads.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/26/sweetfont/
  7. The Pudding: What if you could search every visible word on New York City’s streets?. “This is possible because media artist Yufeng Zhao fed millions of publicly-available panoramas from Google Street View into a computer program that transcribes text within the images (anyone can access these Street View images; you don’t even need a Google account!).”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/the-pudding-what-if-you-could-search-every-visible-word-on-new-york-citys-streets/

  8. RTE: ‘Irish heritage’ – tracking down Dublin’s historic street signs. “Researchers at Trinity College Dublin are calling on the public to help them track down the capital’s old street signs to document them before they disappear. The bilingual green and white signs, which feature the old Irish font Cló Gaelach, date back to the turn of the 20th century and are believed to have been […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/03/rte-irish-heritage-tracking-down-dublins-historic-street-signs/