Hi, Sometimes a map can be part of a product line, with its own design manual, such as an info board for national parks. The map is to fit with the overall message and design of the board. Colors, typefaces, icons and other elements to be used are already decided, maybe by a graphic design team. Including rules that no italic fonts are to be used on the map (nice for rivers), and no placenames in just capital letters (could be useful for mountain ranges). Have you worked in scenarios like this? With constraints that excludes common cartographic conventions? Do you have examples of maps that go against some common rules? A case of this is not best practice, but here it works? Thanks for highlighting Daniel Huffman and his page Something About Maps! His tutorials will be very useful.
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