This week in communicating GIS, I created a variety of maps incorporating map design and typography. These maps essentially help train cartographers in how maps are created using map principals for organization and balance. One of these maps was a typography map. Typography essentially describes the labeling properties to describe specific features. These properties can range from label size, font, style, and placement. The typography label map I created was for the San Francisco area and can be seen below.
For this map, I attempted to best label the features with some kind of typographic structure. Examples of this include label formatting such as water body and park labels, and labels for areas in order of magnitude. One challenge with this map is that ArcGIS Pro is terrible for the creation of feature labels and fails drastically compared to Adobe Illustrator. Overall I tried the best I could with the software to make an effective map that shows the power of typography labels. This map could also be approved if quad boundaries were provided for some of the block level features.
~Map On
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