{"id":1107,"date":"2012-02-02T11:15:07","date_gmt":"2012-02-02T11:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mappinglondon.blogweb.casa.ucl.ac.uk\/?p=1107"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:11:10","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T12:11:10","slug":"just-the-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2012\/just-the-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Just the Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ursulahitz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ursulahitz.jpg\" alt=\"ursulahitz\" width=\"605\" height=\"410\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1123\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ursulahitz.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ursulahitz-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/ursulahitz-140x94.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>James previously featured <a href=\"\/2012\/01\/17\/typographic-tube-map\/\">a tube map<\/a> made up of just names of the stations. He&#8217;s also featured other <a href=\"http:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/2011\/03\/18\/typographic-london\/\">London typographic maps<\/a>. Exploring a little further, it turns out there&#8217;s some other fine examples out there, often available as prints.<\/p>\n<p>The screenshot above is part of a beautiful print by Ursula Hitz &#8211; the <a href=\"http:\/\/cargocollective.com\/ursulahitz\/#1768209\/Map-of-Greater-London\">Greater London Type Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a print from ORK posters, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orkposters.com\/eu\/london.html\">City Neighbourhood Poster<\/a> for the central London area. There is also a version that shows all the boroughs of London. My ideal version would be a hybrid one &#8211; showing the neighbourhoods for the whole of London! I do however like the clean and crisp typography, which makes the print slightly less &#8220;heavy&#8221; than the one above.<\/p>\n<p>Both prints would look great in any carto-typophile&#8217;s apartment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orkposters.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orkposters.jpg\" alt=\"orkposters\" width=\"605\" height=\"471\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orkposters.jpg 605w, https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/orkposters-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 605px) 100vw, 605px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Screenshots included courtesy of the authors &#8211; top: \u00a9 <a href=\"http:\/\/ursulahitz.com\/\">ursulahitz.com<\/a>, above: \u00a92010 Ork Inc.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James previously featured a tube map made up of just names of the stations. He&#8217;s also featured other London typographic maps. Exploring a little further,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5079,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions\/5079"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mappinglondon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}