Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Good Typography


Though a relatively simple map showing only Maryland's 24 counties and major water resources, it uses good typography. The difference in font color and size make it easy for the viewer to discern the county labels from the water body labels. All of the county labels are fit within their boundaries reading horizontally on a straight line with few exceptions. These exceptions were only made in efforts to keep the county labels on land and within their boundaries so they were not to extend into the water. All of the water body labels were properly italicized, while all of the rivers are labeled along their path. The water reservoirs were labeled with the best possible type placement due to it being a small scale map which doesn't allow the reservoirs to be labeled within the body of water.

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