Typography: Overview of the State of Florida
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Today I want to talk about Typography and how it relates to Cartographic principles . The map displayed above is an overview of the state of Florida. The capital city, main cities, rivers, lakes, and swampland are displayed above. So how does this map represent the state of Florida in regards to Typography? Typography is the font, color scheme, theme, and overall display of a map. Therefore, I used a neutral gray themed background, with the dark canvas base map, gray headers, black font, and light gray canvas inset map as an overview of the state. I felt as if this color scheme really highlighted the main cities and water features I wanted to display on my map with bright colors. The green capital star, the red cities, and blue water ways really standout and highlight the main objective of the map. As you can see, the labels are easy to read as well. I used italics for the water areas such as the labels on the rivers. With expression queries, I wanted to identify and label only