The objectives of this week's lab were focused on cartographic design in ArcGIS Pro, applying map design principles, explaining design choices based on an audience, and applying different typographic styles, including placement, to achieve legibility, visual contrast and hierarchy. Looking the attached map, I believe I achieved the five map design principles represented in my map. Map one: I addressed the map principles of figure-ground organization and visual contrast by choosing a darker color to represent Travis County, and brighter, lighter colors to represent the individual layers. I achieved legibility by choosing a legible font in black text, and sticking with the same font/color for the entire map. Lastly, I achieved hierarchical organization and balance by placing the features like recreation centers on top of features like the County, water bodies and roads, which centering Travis County with a landscape template in the center of the paper. Map three: I used text (type, ...
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