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.
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BABBU
Every toddler invents their own language. Babbu is my daughter Matilda's word for ball. By the time she says it correctly, I'll have already forgotten how it sounded.
Babbu is a private dictionary for the words only your child says, the mispronunciations, the invented names, the sounds that make sense to no one but you. No social features. No accounts. Just a growing archive of a specific, unrepeatable moment in your child's life.
Try it here: https://adobe-slush-93538397.figma.site
✨ What it does
- Add a word as your child says it, plus what it actually means
- Record their voice directly in the app
- Automatically matches an illustration to the word's meaning, translating it from any language
- Colour-code each card
- Search your collection
- Share a snapshot of the full dictionary with family as a single link
🛠️ Built with
Figma Make
Anthropic API — icon matching with automatic translation
Native browser MediaRecorder API — audio recording, no dependencies
localStorage — fully private, lives on your device
🔮 What's next
Live sync so the dictionary stays up to date for everyone
Family members can contribute words from their end
Milestones view — first word, tenth, fiftieth
A printed book of the whole dictionary
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