Re: Africa II [SoS Africa Reward Map]
Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2012 1:41 am
Elephants look much better, but I don't think they needed to be turned! Keep the old font, looks much better than the new one!
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natty dread wrote:No, do not keep the old font. It looks cheesy, it makes the whole map look cheesy. Anyone who likes it has absolutely no aesthetic eye, period.
If the new font doesn't work, fine, look for another. But please find a font that doesn't look like it's from the cover of a colouring book.
Gillipig wrote:There's no right and wrong here!
natty dread wrote:The objective truth is that the old font is horrible and doesn't fit this or any other map. It's tacky, tasteless, cheesy, and inappropriate for the theme of the map. Africa is not a funny and whimsical la-la-land. Implying that it is simply condescending and racist. This very map was made as a prize of sorts for a charity drive to help the impoverished people of Africa, and a "funny and humorous" font is EXTREMELY inappropriate in that context.
natty dread wrote:The old font looks like it belongs on a map like doodle earth, and if that's what you want to do, to create a "doodle africa" then that's fine with me, but the rest of the map doesn't look like that... the look and style of the map looks more like a "serious" geographical representation of Africa, not a joke map like doodle earth.
Gillipig wrote:Please make up your mind natty. Will you protest the use of that font like it was the most racist, discriminating and horrible "children book font", or let nobodies get away with using it by just saying "if that's what you want to do then that's fine with me"?
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natty dread wrote:Ok some more font options:
http://www.fontspace.com/astigmatic-one ... other-hand
http://www.fontspace.com/gunarta/lovely-eunike-hans
http://www.fontspace.com/fontgrube/gapstown-ah
natty dread wrote:Gillipig wrote:Please make up your mind natty. Will you protest the use of that font like it was the most racist, discriminating and horrible "children book font", or let nobodies get away with using it by just saying "if that's what you want to do then that's fine with me"?
Gillipig, I don't know if you have a problem with reading, or with comprehending what you read, but can you please stop posting useless drivel about things you don't know anything about? Thanks.
natty dread wrote:Another thing: the border between Western Sahara / Algeria is really small, to the point that it nearly looks like a 4-way border on the small version, and it's unclear. I think you should tweak it a bit to make the connection more clear.
Gillipig wrote:You're grumpier than the grumpiest 60 year old!
koontz1973 wrote:My vote is for a bigger, better version of Africa. Wait a minute, we have that with Africa 2. Please leave it. A bit of scrolling never hurts unless you have Carpal tunnel syndrome.
Gilligan wrote:I disagree...Any smaller and it'd be very cluttered.
AndyDufresne wrote:Nobodies, would it be possible to make the small map...even a little smaller? It's pretty big / tall, and it looks like it might be possible to make it smaller. The only thing I like more about Africa, over Africa II, is that it is smaller and fits in your window nicer.
--Andy