3. Map Design

Nuts & Bolts & Soup to Nuts

Examples

THE GENERAL RULES ABOUT FONTS ON MAPS

NO MORE THAN TWO FONTS PER MAP. IT IS BEST TO USE ONLY ONE.

However, there are several ways to alter your single, classic font.

YOU CAN USE ALL CAPS. ALL CAPS BOLD. ALL CAPS ITALIC.

You Can Do The Same With The Title Case.

You can change the point size: 12 points, 16 points, 8 points, 36 points.

You can change the color.

You can rotate, stretch, skew, and make several other types of orientation alterations of the label.

FONT (TYPE): The style or appearance of the lettering. This is Times New Roman, 12 point type.

It is a serif type. The serif is the little tail, like the one on the end of this "t" that imitates hand writing and makes the letters flow, one into the next.

A sans serif font does not have the tail and is harder to read. You are reading Arhoni now. Dr. Hines hates this font.

  Some fonts are too cutesy after a short period. You are reading

Bernhard here. Ditto.

Script fonts might be good for labeling water features because they flow.

Unusual or novelty fonts are only suitable on rare occasions BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD TO READ AND CAN BE VERY IRRITATING. This one is called Magneto. Dr. Hines hates it.

Graduated Circles with point symbols

Line type variation

White space legend & inset map

Zooming Inset Map

Raised inset and globe locator

still needs a scale

Good use of contrasting

colors

Areal theme uses multiple

colors logically

Two colors show wet & dry areas

Flow lines: source & destination show hue change, color differentiation explains data nature.

Main map show location & attributes

with graduated circles and dots;

Inset shows volume flows and direction.