NICOLA GINZLER

Senior Graphic Designer
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National Geographic’s Cartographic Typefaces

National Geographic map fonts

By Juan Valdes from nationalgeographic.com: Our maps have long been known for their distinctive typefaces. But few outside the Society know little of the history that lies behind them. Until the early 1930s, most of our maps were hand-lettered—a slow and tedious process requiring great patience and even greater skill. An alternate process—that of setting names […]

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