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When designing a map,
typography is really important.
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It's a way of being able to show
similarities, differences and
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relationships between different
types of geographic features.
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Let's have a look at that.
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I'm just going to go through some
of the basics of typography.
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I don't claim to be a total expert on it,
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but I feel like there's some really
simple guidelines that anyone can
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use to really help improve
the effectiveness of their map.
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So we'll just want to
start from simple things.
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Just something like changing or
choosing lowercase text,
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uppercase text, title case, or
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sentence case tells people something
about the information on your map.
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Remember, similarities,
differences, relationships.
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And so is not just those similarities,
differences, and relationships,
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it's that you're talking about the visual
hierarchy or the importance of things.
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If you have something that's in small,
lowercase letters versus something that's
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in large, capital letters, that tells
somebody that the large capital letter
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thing, whatever that is, is more important
visually, and probably geographically or
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in the real world, as opposed to
that thing that's got smaller text.
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Another simple decision that can be made
about typography is whether you decide
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to use serif or sans serif for
any particular geographic type of feature.
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And what do I mean by that?
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Serif just means that it has these little
flourishes on the parts of the letter.
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You may have seen this before or
maybe you know this already, but
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I think it's worth pointing out.
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Is that a serif font was
actually originally designed so
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that it made it easier to
read text across a page.
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And so
the little flurishes are meant to kind of
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provide a guide as your eye reads accross.
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Sans serif became more popular later, and
it does not have those little flourishes.
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So depending on what you're mapping, you
may want to choose one versus the other.
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But remember, you want to be able to use
them to show similarities, differences,
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and relationships.
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So if you want to show, say, natural
features versus ones made by humans, maybe
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you make one set of labels in serif fonts
and the other one in sans serif font.
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And you'll see this kind of thing a lot,
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because it's a way of conveying
that kind of information.
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So you can also use, so we can use
whether it's uppercase, lowercase, serif,
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sans serif, the size of it,
different typefaces, the color.
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All of these things are used to
efficiently communicate to somebody
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what's going on on the map.
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What we usually refer to as a font, and
I'm just as guilty of this as anyone, but
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I'm trying to use the correct
terminology here,
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is actually referred to as a typeface.
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So Calibri,
which is the one I'm using here,
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is actually technically called a typeface.
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So then we have the type style,
so that could be normal.
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And then the size of it is called the type
size, and that is usually done in points.
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So here we have the Calibri typeface in
the normal style at a size of 24 points.
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And together that is referred
to referred to as a font.
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That's something that comes from old
typesetting days, is that they would
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actually have collections of blocks
that they would put in a printing press.
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And so together, this was referred to as
a font, it was a collection of those,
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that was particular typeface and
style and size.
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So a different font would be, it could
still be Calibri, could still be normal,
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but if it's a different size,
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technically that would actually be
referred to as a different font.
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And so the same thing for
Calibri Italic, Calibri Bold.
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So even though the sizes are the same,
now the style is different, and so
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these are all part of the same typeface.
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But they're considered to be
different fonts, just so you know.
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Here we have different typefaces, so
Arial, Calibri, Bookman, and Cambria,
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there's tons of them out there.
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They come in different styles,
typically Normal, Bold, and Italic.
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And then we can have different type sizes,
so whatever it is, here we've got 18, 24,
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and 32.
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So I'm hoping that you are familiar
with a lot of this already.
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But I want you to kind of think about how
this relates to map design in particular.
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There are preferred locations on a map for
labels, say, for
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something as simple as just a dot that's
representing, say, the name of a town.
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So the best location is above and
to the right.
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Here.
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The second best is below and to the right.
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The third is above and to the left.
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Below is fourth, above is fifth,
and sixth is at the bottom of it.
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And so you may not always have a choice
about this, but sometimes you do.
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Obviously you try for
the best location first, but
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maybe there's something that's blocking
that or that would overlap with the text.
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It could be a rail line or
a building or whatever.
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So then you try to go for
the second one and see if that fits.
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And if that doesn't fit,
then you go to the third one.
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And this all has to do just with where
people's eyes are trained to look for
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things.
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And for whatever reason, our brains
want to look above and to the right for
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a label.
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And if you can put it there,
that's going to be most efficient.
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And if not, then the brain will look
at the next location and the next one.
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So this is just a good guideline to go by.
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Sometimes you can have the software
label things automatically for you.
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Or you can set it to have different
waitings, so that it'll try this first and
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then try a different position second.
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And you don't necessarily always
have to have this kind of minute
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attention to detail.
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But if you can, it will always make for
a better designed map.
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I'm always curious about the typography
decisions that map designers make.
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And web maps are a good way to kind of
quickly get a sense of what's going on or
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what they chose to do.
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And so if you're learning about this
stuff or applying it for the first time,
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it's always a good idea to go
look at other people's maps,
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especially professionals,
and see what they did.
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And then see if you may want to follow the
same kinds of conventions that they did.
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So here we have Esri's basemap.
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This is their topographic basemap.
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And you can see, for example,
that they're using uppercase for
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the names of the states, and
that's actually a serif font.
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They're using uppercase for
the names of mountain ranges,
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but it's a sans serif font.
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And maybe the design decision that
they made was that states are man made
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features, if you want, or human features,
or things related to people.
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Versus something like a mountain
range which is a natural feature.
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So we've also used the same convention for
the names of countries.
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You'll notice that they've used
a serif font for natural features.
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But it's now italic and it's in a
different color, so that it is clear to us
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that these are referring to a different
class of geographic feature.
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And then we have sans serif used for
the names of cities and
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towns in various parts.
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With a different basemap, this is
a terrain map, they've got a different set
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of design decisions that were
made about the typography.
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So here we still have capital letters
with a serif font for states, but
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they've made it a different color so
that it doesn't stand out as much.
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In this one, though, the cities and
towns are in a serif font,
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as opposed to the last one,
which was sans serif.
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And the mountain ranges, you can just see
part of it here is capital serif, but
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it's in italics.
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This is a different basemap,
this was done by National Geographic and
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is included in Esri's basemap series.
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These are different design decisions
again in relation to topography.
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So here you can see that they've used a
similar idea with the labeling of states.
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But now the mountain ranges are using
a serif font and are more obvious, but
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they're still in italics.
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It's interesting that they've curved this
one here, where here this one's straight.
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They're using sans serif for
the names of towns.
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You see that the larger cities have
larger text, smaller cities or
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towns have smaller text,
to sort of indicate that visual hierarchy.
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And then OpenStreetMap made a very
different decision as well,
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partially in terms of the content
as well as the style.
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You'll notice there's much
less labeling on here.
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And then in terms of what they
have used for typography,
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there's different decisions again.
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I'm not going to go through every one
of these in a lot of detail, but again,
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just try to think about it like,
what would you do?
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Which of these do you like?
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Which style might you use for
your own maps, and
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how would you use them to indicate
things that are similar to each other or
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different, or what the relationships
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