Saltz is a designer, art director, and an associate professor of electronic design and multimedia at the City College of New York. She is also obsessed with the world of “typographic” tattoos ...

These maps were created by cartography company Axis Maps using only typography. The company's artists manipulate words to express physical locations and to show distinctions between coastlines ...

That said, the maps get jumbled when you really laser in. The designer included an awful lot of city names — not just the biggest ones — and they can be pretty tough to read on close inspection.

An update for Google Maps will affect users on Android, desktop, as well as iOS, ... Google Maps Updated With Improved Typography, Areas of Interest. Tim July 25, 2016 7 . Share.