I think it's hands-down fantastic. I personally like the way you combined the mountain icons with the more 'naturalistic' forests, and I think the fonts look great as is.
The only thing I'm unsure about is the rivers. Maybe make them a little darker overall, and as you said, that under-layer makes the smaller rivers look a bit too dark compared to the larger ones.
** UPDATE **
I tweaked the rivers to make them more visible, added a dark outline to the coasts and reduced the blur on the forest layer's mask. I also experimented with replacing textured forest entirely with Wag's tree brushes.
Thumbs up on the estuaries! Love it.
I think if you go with the tree icons, they need to be smaller.
Venus Public Transit, Map Of Ceres, Jack Vance's Ports Of Call & Lurulu ... why do I only have 3 maps here?
I updated the first post with a new version of the map. In case you're wondering about scale, here's a simple world map with the boundaries of the regional map highlighted.
That's an impressive looking world sir. Kudos!
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Since it's the very first thing that caught my eye I should mention that you might want to move the word "Empire" up above "The Sea of". I was reading it as "the sea of a empire" and saying to myself that's a typo it should be "an" until I realized the word "Argyrian" up top. Otherwise, looks good.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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They're written with different font, color, size and case. Why would you interpret them as one label![]()
Because the human brain does that when things are close together.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
My Maps ~ My Brushes ~ My Tutorials ~ My Challenge Maps