The Known World

[Diamond]

I really like the overall color scheme. Though it does seem the forests are lacking something - maybe a texture of some sort *shrugs*

They actually have a texture, but it seems it's too faint. That's something I've been struggling with. Let me experiment with some things, and I'll post the results if they look halfway decent.

[Diamond]

Changed the texture on the forests and started adding national borders...

[pasis]

I feel the same way as Steel General and forests need tweaking. In my opinion forest should be a bit darker to stand out more, but not too much to overcome the mountains. The mountains look great and should be left as they are. Good work…

[rdanhenry]

I don't have a problem with the forests. Depending on what else is going on the map before it is done, it may be better to keep them subdued. If there's going to be a lot of political/settlement mapping, better the trees not get in the way of it. I'm liking this look.

[Diamond]

Yeah, I'm wanting to keep the forests fairly low-key, because this map is going to be extremely text-heavy when it's done. I don't want any one thing to overwhelm the map, but I guess if I had to choose I'd rather have the text dominate in a map like this. Well, once I start on the four individual quadrants and begin to add text, we'll see how it looks.

[Ramah]

I agree with Pasis. For me the forests are now too light. You can see a texture on them now but it has faded them a lot. I preferred them how they were before. And I personally don't care if it has a texture or not, I think it would be fitting with the style for the forests just to be a base colour on the map although I do wonder if it would look better with a thin stroke around them for definition.