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manticorpse t1_iy87dzm wrote

Reply to comment by the_letharg1c in I made a Neighborhood wood map of Manhattan. Birch Plywood, LASER Burnt by meridian-maps

I do like the way "Washington Hts" and "Morningside Hts" are tilted to match the angle of north/Broadway.

I do NOT like the way the word "Heights" was needlessly abbreviated in both of those cases.

I also don't like the haphazard way labels are rotated both clockwise and counterclockwise, nor the way some are left-justified, others are right-justified, and others are centered.

I also don't like that Marble Hill and Roosevelt Island are missing. And I wish Hudson Square was pulled out of Soho.

Still, it includes Inwood, which is ... unusual. And appreciated.

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the_letharg1c t1_iy8ghpk wrote

Totally. It’s design chaos with variable type size, weight, spacing, orientation, abbreviation, you name it. Central Park is also not a neighborhood… this piece would really have benefited from some negative space there.

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