Communicating GIS Lab 3

This Lab focused on Typography. We created a map of the San Francisco Area and practices labeling features. The font for the entire map is Arial. I chose to keep the same font for all of the labels in order to keep the map uniform. The only font that was not set to Arial was the Title font which helped to separate it from the rest of the data. The font sizes on the product vary slightly to show a hierarchy. The larger size shows a major city (ex. San Francisco) while the smaller font shows sub-cities. I attempted to use a font size large enough to be legible, but small enough to not distract from the rest of the information. The placement decisions were a little more difficult. Since a dark color was used for park backgrounds and the roads were so numerous on the map I had to be creative and us the text halos and contrasting colors. Overall I attempted to place the labels offset from each other in order to not overlap while allowing spacing for the normal map elements. For these labels I used the standard text tool on the Draw toolbar.