GIS: 6005 Lab 1

 For this map I broke down a lot of my details based off of previous maps and how they can be easily perceived on the map itself. Even if some of the colors do or don’t make sense, I still added them if they can be deciphered from the map in a productive manner. For the general-purpose things, I chose red for the font. I changed the size of this based off of the feature which it is trying to convey. This was just because the color stands out well to the backdrop of other random colors and allows you to easily identify them on the map. The fonts were variable for every type and not really anything too specific. Just changed up how they all looked up a little for some slight variation. The water features were a blue italic. I chose this cause most maps have water features with a blue font coloring with italic. Also, a popular font for this is Sans Serf which was the only one that had an intentional font type because of this. The Park features had a brown font type because a lot of parks use the color brown as it is a natural nature-based color. This conveys to most when on maps or signs that it is a natural resource-based thing. The landmark feature I used orange for no other reason than there was only one and I needed a color to fill it. It stood out well on the map though and even somewhat signified the “golden” gate bridge with a low-key variation of that color. The black text was used for topographic features as these stood out well in a crowded map setting without having to use extremely vibrant colors. This is normally a good go-to color for these features and seemed the most appropriate. The rest of the features were used from the shapefiles with parks being green because of the trees. Water is blue cause its water. The streets and highways had a gray to black coloring as these are easily identifiable and usually how they look in real life from concrete to asphalt. All of these features were subjective to the size of the feature, the backdrop that it had, the relative importance of them, as well as how easily they could be spotted off the map compared to their hierarchically status. I feel like this map conveys that fairly well not only from the coloring, but how even some of the same category features had the have their font sizes and locations changed to properly convey the locations and general size of the features they were describing.