Sample Map for a click-and-place Hachure-style Set

[KMAlexander]

This is my favorite era of map and I wanted to show it a bit more love. My other set (Lehmann) is a bit more daunting, so I figured I needed to make a new set that doesn't require as much Illustrator knowledge.

(For those unaware, hachures are those fuzzy caterpillar lines that became popular in the late-19th century and were the precursors to our modern topographical maps.)

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Not sure on the release date yet. Still feeling out the set as a whole.

[MistyBeee]

Promising, Alex, as always ! You always help me to discover details I missed on historical maps.

[KMAlexander]

Thanks, Misty!

With every set I make I find I'm learning something new as well, keeps it interesting—I think spending so much time with the nitty-gritty details really helps with that.

[KMAlexander]

Here's where I ended up. All in all, I think this is a really effective set. Captures that transitional stage of the late-18th/early-19th century.

I'm still a bit away from launch (I make these sample maps to test these sets out to look for weird errors/bugs.) But, as always, I'll be sharing the brushes I used over in Mapping Elements.

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[Jimmy]

Total novice,, thanks for your work,, looks good.. and useful website guides.. thinking of giving photoshop a spin with those brush sets, regards Jimmy

[KMAlexander]

You bet, man. Happy to help.

[KMAlexander]

And the set is now live in case anyone wants to go make their own hachure map.