Sukritact's Cartography Outline

[regalman]

This is what I whipped in about 4 hours work. It's still not finished, need to add more important stuff. just needed suggestions on it, especially the colour choice

 

[Craig_Sutter]

Nice... I personally like a few physical feature labels as well. Perhaps Arabic terms for the oceans and seas, etc.

 

[Craig_Sutter]

Oh, and some embellishments of course.

 

[Pouakai]

I would probably switch to a normal font instead of the arabic-esque one for the city names, and maybe darken / desaturate the colours a bit. Otherwise it's looking pretty good

EDIT: Also if you're showing both current and previous holdings then it would probably be good to chuck a key in somewhere

 

[RawSasquatch]

I would personally recommend using that Arabic-esque font for labeling the terrain (Cordoba, Former Holdings, Atlantic Ocean, etc), and use a different, more distinct font for the city names.

 

[regalman]

Ok here it is, important stuff finished
, tell me what do you think of the fonts, I decided to keep it but was unsure at first, but should they be changed?
Need tips for this

 

[Pouakai]

That looks much better. I would still change the font though, try something like Palantino

 

[regalman]

That looks much better. I would still change the font though, try something like Palantino

for all labels?

 

[Craig_Sutter]

I like it.

 

[Pouakai]

The city labels at the very least. I'm not sure about the foreign empire labels yet

 

[regalman]

how does it look now?

 

[Pouakai]

Mind if I have a play around with it? It's close, but I'm not sure how to describe what I mean. I think they're a bit too perfect for the map, most of mine have a slight curve in them or are off-white or something

 

[regalman]

yeah sure, I'll send you the file

 

[Craig_Sutter]

I really like the wine colour you used... will that be civ colour too?

 

[regalman]

perhaps

 

[Craig_Sutter]

My latest effort... I plan to make a few maps from this one> Strathclyde and Dalriata will be easy created being in the same geographical area.

Spoiler :

 

[regalman]

That's nice! You should darken the ocean a bit and decrease the distance of the drop shadow because if the islands. Don't outline the font, make it all white or any other colour but only one colour. Use drop shadows on the fonts. Instead of the Stonehenge , use a design like you did for the others, what about their language script? And please post the edited version here

The embellishments you used for the greens are awesome, same for the animals. Great job with those rivers! Don't forget arc your font text where it will look nice. The bend will work for all of the territory names, some more than others! Excellent map and good luck

 

[Craig_Sutter]

Thanks for the advice. I will certainly tone down the drop shadow and see how using drp shadows works on the fonts. The labels actually are curved but obviously not enough.

I may keep stonehenge as the UI for the civ is a stone circle so I thought it fitting. I will also revisit the ocean colour... I had it darker but thought the contrast with the pict colours was not stark enough. I do not want to change the map colour as it is meant to match the civ.

I will see if I can find a civ appropriate font... there ought to be somthing out there.

I'll post the adjusted map later.

If anyone wants to edit any of my maps for their own use I have the layered gimp files at request.

Thanks.

 

[Craig_Sutter]

BTW how was the darkened border area achieved in your caliphate map? The wine colour is darker around the edge than the interior... I like that effect as it highlites the important area of the map quite well.

 

[TPangolin]

He used my template which can be found here: http://www.mediafire.com/download/fuvqnn1z053p5zg/Map+template.psd