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)

Tags: Geography for Fun and Profit, Maps, News and Briefs

Eva Holland is the senior editor of World Hum. She is an associate editor at Up Here and Up Here Business magazines, and her writing has also appeared in Reader's Digest Canada, NationalGeographic.com, the National Post, the Montreal Gazette, the Ottawa Citizen and WestJet's Up! Magazine, among other publications. 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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