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)


Eva Holland is co-editor of World Hum. She is a former associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and a contributor to Vela. She's based in Canada's Yukon territory.


1 Comment for Mapped: America’s Cities, in Typeface

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.

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