Each hand-drawn letter is a little different, lacking the consistency of a font. Manual works like these stand far apart from digital precision: the lines are uneven, the colors variable. Click to visit Molly’s website and portfolio In contrast, some of my colleagues, such as Molly O’Halloran, have instead found their cartographic success through drawing by hand, or through a manual-digital hybrid. And that’s often just fine - even desirable in many circumstances. In contrast, clean digital graphics carry the feeling of being artificial and controlled. We are surrounded by organic forms and colors. Look around yourself and notice the tiny variations, wobbles, and unevennesses in everything around you. But perfectly flat colors and mathematically precise shapes are rare in nature. The software paints clean, precise colors along those paths, with an unwavering hand. Behind the scenes, it’s made of straight line segments and simple curves. For example, I talked earlier this year about a map I made of my brother’s housing association. Workflows vary, but the end result is that a lot of us base our cartography entirely on clean vector shapes and neat raster grids. We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools.
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