Typographic Map of Seattle
Every street, park, and shoreline drawn entirely in type. Printed at 12×18 and 24×36 inches.
Drag to pan, scroll or pinch to zoom. With the map focused, use the arrow keys to pan, + and − to zoom, and 0 to reset. Printed at 24 × 36 in.
From downtown on Puget Sound's Elliott Bay through Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, Lake Union and beyond, a picture of the heart of Seattle comes together from thousands of pieces of manually-placed words and letters. Water is given a light blue color underneath the text in order to highlight all of the piers and jetties along the shoreline. Look for Huskies Stadium hidden among the text for the University of Washington-Seattle. And although it might have a small footprint, we couldn't leave out the Space Needle, shown as a bullet point with a ring around it in Seattle Center.
The map is based on place names and geography as they appear in OpenStreetMap.