Cartographic Skills

This week, we worked on making a visually coherent map and also sharpened our Adobe Illustrator skills. We were given a incoherently colored map of South Florida depicting the percentage of Hispanic population by county along with a pair of smaller scale maps to provide geological context for those who don't know where Florida is. I fixed the colors by generating a monochromatic range of colors via Color Brewer and manually editing the colors for each percentage range. A blue background helps the orange tones stand out, while the two inset maps have been left with color schemes that tend to blend in to the background.