Sylarus - Parchment Style Kingdom map (First Map of the Year!)

[Arcane Atlas]

Thank you both for the kind words!

Really love the atmosphere on this one, as I think I already said on Twitter... I always love heavy texturing and darker tones like this. Really digging the title scroll too.

I was actually very much inspired by the heavy texturing on your own parchment maps here! I always find them so captivating.

I'm personally not a huge fan of Northumbria - it's one of those hit and miss typefaces that has a few downright ugly characters that make it a bit too hard to work into nice typography even if the overall look is not too bad.

I definitely agree that it has some really iffy characters - looking back on this now the double L in 'Cealla' especially bothers me. I find that most "handwritten" style fonts don't look quite right, so I normally opt for a serif. The client was looking for a calligraphy feel here so I went with it, but I always struggle with font choices - I need to find myself a few reliable go-to fonts I think!

[Kellerica]

I was actually very much inspired by the heavy texturing on your own parchment maps here! I always find them so captivating.

I'm flattered!

I definitely agree that it has some really iffy characters - looking back on this now the double L in 'Cealla' especially bothers me. I find that most "handwritten" style fonts don't look quite right, so I normally opt for a serif. The client was looking for a calligraphy feel here so I went with it, but I always struggle with font choices - I need to find myself a few reliable go-to fonts I think!

Looking at the font again, I actually think I personally mostly take issue with the capitals of that particular one, rather than the lowercase characters. Not that it matters, but I'm a font nerd. I should thank you, this actually made go look at the font in my library and I ended up giving the collection the clean it's been needing for two years!