Mapped: America’s Cities, in Typeface
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 10.14.10 | 2:24 PM ET
A Texan cartography firm is mapping urban America—using only varying sizes and colors of typeface. Co.Design has samples from the Boston and Chicago maps.
Blogger Suzanna LaBarre notes that they’re “a thoroughly intuitive way to visualize cities. People navigate a new place according to names, not symbols and grids.” New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., are next on the firm’s to-do list.
(Via The Daily Dish)
Chuck Kirchner 10.15.10 | 1:59 AM ET
Love it when folks think outside the box - great example of another way of viewing things.