Introducing StateFace
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Today we released a font that you can use to include small state map shapes as a design element in a web application. It’s called StateFace.
StateFace is designed to be used at small sizes. The shapes have been highly simplified to make for a really small font. All 50 states plus D.C. and a wee continental U.S. map fit in about 21k, and they look great on Retina displays.
We’re using it on PAC Track.
It’s free/open source. Instructions for downloading and using it are on our Github account.
Let us know if you use it!
2 comments
Johannes
March 27, 2012, 7:12 a.m.
Hey Scott,
thanks for your work on this! It really looks great and it’s awesome to use!
Would be very interesting to read about the process of creating this.
Reason I’m wondering: I would like to create something like this for my own country. Which would possibly be a lot less work because we don’t have as many states in Austria ;)
Thanks for your work!
Cheers,
Johannes
kc! Bradshaw
Sep. 26, 2012, 5:03 p.m.
What a fantastic idea!! Thank you!
It would be so awesome if you could work the opentype ligatures so that when someone types the two-letter state abbreviation, it would render that state! (ex: when you type in C it currently makes Arkansas, A makes Alaska. But what if you typed CA and it would make California!?)