{"id":2561,"date":"2021-04-23T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/?p=2561"},"modified":"2023-07-29T20:35:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T19:35:52","slug":"mapmaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/mapmaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Mapmaking"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Inspired by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk\/newsroom\/blog\/real-world-mapping-meets-tolkien\">this post<\/a> on the Ordnance Survey blog, here is my attempt at a Tolkien-style map. I chose Castleton for no reason other than it has a castle and a river.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tolkien-map-2.png\" alt=\"Tolkien-style map of Castleton\" class=\"wp-image-2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tolkien-map-2.png 600w, https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tolkien-map-2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tolkien-map-2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/tolkien-map-2-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To create the drawing I used <a href=\"https:\/\/krita.org\/\">Krita<\/a> and a Wacom One graphics tablet. I initially tried to hand letter it but the results were poor. The font I ended-up using is Pete Klassen&#8217;s beautiful <em>Aniron<\/em> font, which I downloaded from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehutt.de\/tolkien\/fonts.html\">here<\/a>. It is described as &#8220;free for personal use&#8221; and I hope my usage respects this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by this post on the Ordnance Survey blog, here is my attempt at a Tolkien-style map. I chose Castleton for no reason other than it has a castle and a river. To create the drawing I used Krita and a Wacom One graphics tablet. I initially tried to hand letter it but the results &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/mapmaking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mapmaking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-2561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-cartography","tag-typography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2561"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2561\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andyjohnson.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}