Good news everyone! One of our major projects for the last few months has been something we’re calling Glyphosaurus. It started with a simple task: I was trying to draw a script, uppercase “D” for a project and wanted to see lots of different examples of scripty D’s — but Google image search was really letting me down.

People post amazing things to Dribbble and Ffffffffffffffffffffffffound and designspiration and other sites, but nowhere is there a well-structured database of letters and type. Especially when we’re talking about old signs and one-off lettering projects.

So we thought: why not create a place where people can search letters by type, place, era, style, anything. That became Glyphosaurus (glyphs + thesaurus + dino sauce). We created a simple way to upload a whole image and tag the individual letters the way you would tag people in a Facebook photo. Users can just press an “R” on the keyboard and load up all the R’s in the database, and sort further using tags. And if anyone has any bright ideas about JS-based OCR, we’re all ears.

We’ve been hitting up the Instagram (@glyphosaurus), Twitter @glyphosaurus and Tumblr at glyphosaurus.tumblr.com. And when the site is live, it’ll be up at glyphosaurus.com or glyphosaur.us (for the cutesy URL set).

Ari and Tito are furiously working on squashing the last bugs and getting us to a place where we can launch to a limited number of testers. If you’d like to be invited, give us your email address and we’ll try to get you in there! We promise not to spam, unless you consider invites to fun websites (and parties!) spam. Stay tuned for a full-scale unveiling, and posts from Ari and Tito on the process!