Vintage Map Styles.

This calendar month nosotros accept been treated to 2 novel vintage map styles.

Two weeks agone Thunderforest released a novel Pioneer map means inspired past times early on American railroad maps. Thunderforest's novel Pioneer map tiles are based on their Transport vector map tileset. The Pioneer map uses "Western fonts, verdigris buildings together with a express color palette" to replicate the means of early on railroad maps.


Yesterday Mapbox unveiled their ain vintage map style. Mapbox's Vintage map means was created inwards Mapbox Studio together with the Mapbox blog has a useful postal service on how the map was created.

The map uses background textures together with bathymetry information to replicate how many vintage maps used detailed styling on the oceans surrounding bodies of land. The Vintage map equally good uses a color system designed to mimic the worn discolored newspaper of many antique vintage maps.