{"id":1076891,"date":"2020-12-08T11:14:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/?post_type=blog&p=1076891"},"modified":"2020-12-08T11:14:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T19:14:52","slug":"steal-this-wpa-poster-style-for-arcgis-pro-please","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/steal-this-wpa-poster-style-for-arcgis-pro-please","title":{"rendered":"Steal this WPA Poster style for ArcGIS Pro please"},"author":6971,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[22941],"tags":[26451,25871,757761,631371,28711],"industry":[],"product":[36561],"class_list":["post-1076891","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","tag-cartography","tag-land-cover","tag-midcentury","tag-skeuomorphism","tag-styles","product-arcgis-pro"],"acf":{"short_description":"Now you, like everyone else, can design with a charming mi-century Works Progress Administration national parks poster vibe!","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

This past GIS Day I was invited to chat with some map friends in Sweden<\/a> about using styles for rapid and consistent cartography. I pondered a bit about what I could demonstrate that might be a fun smashing-together of our homelands and settled on a WPA national parks poster<\/a> style of the 30s and 40s applied to Corine Land Cover data of Europe. This was a nice opportunity to mix the quaint charm of that aesthetic with the Scandinavian hygge<\/a> that my hosts bring to their gathering (which they call a fika<\/em>, and involves coffee and cinnamon rolls and oh my goodness I just discovered someone has written a StoryMap about the Swedish Fika<\/a>! Map people are just wonderful).<\/p>\n

First, here’s a look at some examples of actual WPA posters. Positively dripping with charm…<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1076981,"id":1076981,"title":"WPAParksPosters","filename":"WPAParksPosters.jpg","filesize":275150,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/steal-this-wpa-poster-style-for-arcgis-pro-please\/wpaparksposters","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"wpaparksposters","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1076891,"date":"2020-12-08 16:22:45","modified":"2020-12-08 16:22:45","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1080,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","medium-width":464,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":432,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","large-width":1920,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters-1536x864.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":864,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1080,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters-826x465.jpg","card_image-width":826,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg","wide_image-width":1920,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/WPAParksPosters.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Actually, you’ll be hard pressed to find a current-day national park art poster that isn’t<\/em> designed to this aesthetic (there’s also a joyous cottage industry of parody posters<\/a> that cite negative yelp reviews). Not wanting to feel left out, here is a map I made in ArcGIS Pro during the presentation (and the style<\/a>, also partially made during the presentation), echoing that design sensibility:<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":{"ID":1077201,"id":1077201,"title":"SkaneSweden_Small","filename":"SkaneSweden_Small.jpg","filesize":657334,"url":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small.jpg","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/arcgis-pro\/mapping\/steal-this-wpa-poster-style-for-arcgis-pro-please\/skanesweden_small","alt":"","author":"6971","description":"","caption":"","name":"skanesweden_small","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":1076891,"date":"2020-12-08 16:58:28","modified":"2020-12-08 16:58:28","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1650,"height":2340,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small-213x200.jpg","thumbnail-width":213,"thumbnail-height":200,"medium":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small.jpg","medium-width":184,"medium-height":261,"medium_large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":1089,"large":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small.jpg","large-width":762,"large-height":1080,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small-1083x1536.jpg","1536x1536-width":1083,"1536x1536-height":1536,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small-1444x2048.jpg","2048x2048-width":1444,"2048x2048-height":2048,"card_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small-328x465.jpg","card_image-width":328,"card_image-height":465,"wide_image":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/app\/uploads\/2020\/12\/SkaneSweden_Small-762x1080.jpg","wide_image-width":762,"wide_image-height":1080}},"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":"https:\/\/adventuresinmapping.files.wordpress.com\/2020\/12\/skanesweden_small.jpg"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

Pretty fun!<\/p>\n

Ever since Emily Meriam shared her process<\/a> for making a WPA Poster<\/a> styled map I was eager to try it as well; definitely check out Emily’s post for a beautiful map and a helpful history of the Works Progress Administration’s national park posters.<\/p>\n

There are actually very few surviving WPA national park posters. They were printed so inexpensively and accepted with such passing regard that they have not well-survived the ravages of time and attention. Many examples only survive as black-and-white photos so we don’t know their original color palette. Some designers and enthusiasts, Doug Leen<\/a> chief among them, have imagined palettes for these references (or re-imagined the old palettes). Don’t tell anyone, but I actually like these new palettes much better. I sampled this style’s colors from the Devils Tower poster<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So here is the ArcGIS Pro style<\/a> so you can start making your own WPA-style maps. It’s stuffed with these colors, symbols, north arrows, and scalebars…<\/p>\n

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Here is a little run-down of the sorts of things I notice about this overall look:<\/p>\n