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World-wide CartoCSS port of Stamen's classic terrain style
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pixelated fallback font #72

Open almccon opened 8 years ago

almccon commented 8 years ago

http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/beta/#7/32.301/21.083

screen shot 2016-07-10 at 10 jul 8 27 01

http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/beta/#12/32.4639/130.1870

screen shot 2016-07-10 at 10 jul 8 32 01

I don't know if there's much we can do with the second one near Hondo, but I wonder why the first one near Benghazi is happening?

Do we need a few more fallback fonts before we end up at that really pixelated one (which I think is unifont)?

geoglrb commented 8 years ago

Similarly pixelated in Chinese: http://maps.stamen.com/terrain/beta/#14/39.9869/116.3405

Must be a way to do better...? :)

pnorman commented 7 years ago

I don't know if there's much we can do with the second one near Hondo

Both the labels near Hondo are similarly pixelated.

PT Sans has a very limited range of characters. You could try adding DejaVu to the list to improve the selection. If you did that and the Noto CJK fonts you'd get most of east Asia.

If you want more comprehensive font lists, I suggest looking at OpenStreetMap Carto and the past discussion, since we've tended to be the cutting edge for an open map that renders labels around the entire world.