An as yet un-named island

[Hai-Etlik]

The name generator has done its magic and I've exported at a higher resolution.

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There are a few little glitches, some of the diacritics seems to be drifting when I apply letter spacing.

The island is now named. In particular it is Bākȯ, pronounced "Bah-koi", with the 'ah' stretched out a bit.

[Hai-Etlik]

A bit of manual tweaking of the typography, and scaled up the city names.

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[cereth]

I really like the subdued color palette. Very nice all around.

[Hai-Etlik]

I really like the subdued color palette. Very nice all around.

Thanks. By my standards, it's is actually quite bright and saturated. I keep wanting to tone it down a bit.

Also, I've put the name generator to more use, and changed the transcription a bit. Bākȯ is now Bākoi, though it's still pronounced the same way.

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[Lukc]

I think the palette looks great. How are you inserting the place names automatically?

[Hai-Etlik]

I think the palette looks great. How are you inserting the place names automatically?

It's a bit crude, but it's just a plain old search and replace on the file. The actual code looks like this:

Generators={"Inland Town"=>Town, "River Town"=>RiverTown, "Coast Town"=>CoastTown, "Delta Town"=>DeltaTown, "Lake Town"=>LakeTown, "Mountains"=> Mountains, "Island"=> Island}

$stdin.each do |line|
  Generators.each_pair do |key, gen|
    line.gsub! key, gen.to_s.title_caps
  end
  puts line
end

[Hai-Etlik]

Yet more names, and a rose.

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[Hai-Etlik]

A scale bar and graticule, some tweaks to the ink effect, some width variation and taper on the rivers and outset effects for the coastlines.

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[Hai-Etlik]

A border, labels for the graticule, and some adjustments to the colours. I've also added a "sketch" effect to the forests to help give them some definition though I'm not entirely sure if I like it yet.

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[Hai-Etlik]

OK, moved the colours back up a bit, dropped my dragon logo into the middle of the rose, switched the scale bar to vertical to make better use of the space, and added a second to the far side of the map, and adjusted the text a little.

I think I'll call it done.

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