Cartography Week 1: Map Design and Typography

 

This week I created a multitude of maps that challenged my cartographic skills. The map above is of San Francisco and it included some of its noteworthy geographic locations. I inserted text at these locations in ArcPro. As far as a general theme, I made all of the fonts the same, Californian FB as it looked good and fit the locale. Additionally, I set the water features to have a blue font color, while I maintained a black font theme on the land features in order to maintain legibility. I attempted to have the font conform to the text of the features to the best of my ability. Case in point the Golden Gate, which I aligned the text to spread across the strait. Additionally, tried to have the fonts size relative to their geographic area while still maintaining legibility. This establishes a hierarchy by size. Overall, I learned a lot this week about using text in ArcPro