Found Type - A living alphabet, found in the wild

Found Type is a collaborative web app where people photograph letters of the alphabet found in the real world - on walls, signs, buildings, packaging, pavements - and together build a living typeface made entirely by the world.

The premise is simple: letters are everywhere. Every one of them is a design decision made by someone, somewhere. Found Type turns that into a collective archive.

Try it here: https://slogan-noise-47844386.figma.site/

✨ The experience

- A pannable, zoomable canvas of every submitted letter - alive and growing in real time - Browse the full alphabet: each letter a mosaic of real-world finds from around the world - Type any word and see it spelled out in found letters - Submit your own: photograph, crop, tag, and your letter is live in seconds

⭐ What makes it different: No accounts. No friction. One flow, one purpose. The more people contribute, the more beautiful it becomes.

📍 How it was built: - The entire front-end was built in Figma Make, prompt by prompt, iterated screen by screen.

- The submission flow uses the Anthropic Vision API to validate every photo: confirming it shows a real letter, checking the tag matches, and generating a plain-English description stored in Supabase for moderation - meaning the collection stays clean without user accounts or manual review of every submission.

- Image processing happens entirely client-side via the Browser Canvas API: crop, resize to 800×800, compress - before anything reaches Supabase storage.

🛠️ Tools used

- Figma Make - full front-end - Anthropic Vision API - AI validation + moderation - Supabase - real-time database and image storage - Browser Canvas API - client-side image processing

🔮 What's next - A downloadable font made entirely from submitted photos. - Filters by country, colour, style. - A printed poster of the full collection. - Contributor profiles.