Letters Found on the Moon

This isn’t a tale about Lunar correspondence, but of letters shaped from the craters and shadows of the Moon. Alphabet Moon uses imagery of Lunar contours and ridges to shape a typeface out of unfamiliar terrain. Each letter is drawn not with ink but with the valleys, peaks, and scars of the lunar surface, transforming geological history into the letters of the alphabet.

Enter your name - or any other word - into Alphabet Moon, and watch it spelled out in letters drawn from the Moon’s ancient terrain. Each character is carefully matched to the shape of a crater, ridge, or valley, so that what begins as a simple word is reimagined in a language etched into the lunar surface.

Beneath each lunar letter lies a short explanation of how that form was created. These notes not only reveal the exact location on the Moon where the feature can be found, but also describe the geological forces that shaped it - whether an ancient impact, the slow cooling of lava, or the shifting of the Moon’s crust.

Alphabet Moon is a brilliant reinterpretation of Rhett Dashwood’s Google Maps Typography. Back in 2009, Dashwood unveiled an “Earth font” made up of 26 satellite images of our planet, each one resembling a different letter of the alphabet.

NASA appreciated Dashwood’s idea so much that they went on to create their own interactive typewriter, allowing you to write your name using satellite imagery. Type a name into Your Name in Landsat and watch it spelled out in Earth features captured by Landsat satellites. You can even download an image of your word written in massive Earth letters, and by hovering over each letter you can discover where in the world those shapes occur.

And if letters alone don’t satisfy your curiosity, there’s also Earth Clock - an online digital clock that uses satellite images of natural features resembling numbers to display the current time wherever you are.