Landmark
54.6868° N · 25.2906° E
Gediminas' Tower
The red-brick crown of Castle Hill, with the city's best panorama at dusk.
Style Guide · Plate XXXI · Amber Cartography
A cartographer's love letter to the old town —
Love
Vilnius.
Hand-drawn warmth, copper ink, and amber light. A design language built like an antique map of the city: precise where it counts, generous with negative space, soaked in Baltic sun.
Surveyed
Anno 2026
Anno 2026
01 · Pigments
The colour of amber & ink
Warm parchment grounds everything. Copper and amber carry interaction; aged verdigris green gives the maps their cartographic soul. High contrast ink keeps it legible and editorial.
Parchment#F4EAD6
Vellum Edge#E2CDA3
Amber#C8771F
Copper#A4502A
Verdigris#4A6B5D
Iron Ink#2A2014
02 · Lettering
Type set by hand
Fraunces — a soft-serif with optical wobble — does the display work, paired with Spectral for warm reading text and Space Mono for coordinates, labels, and legend.
Senamiestis
Užupis, republic of art
Gediminas Tower at golden hour
Vilnius wears its Baroque skin lightly — cobbled lanes spill into hidden courtyards, bell towers lean against the river light, and amber glows in every shop window. This is a city best read like a good map: slowly, with a finger tracing the streets.
NORTH 54.6872° · EAST 25.2797° · SCALE 1:7500 · LEGEND № 12
03 · Measure
Spacing on a map scale
A modular rhythm in 4px steps — like graticule lines. Used consistently for gaps, padding, and stacking.
4
8
16
26
40
64
96
04 · Instruments
Buttons, marks & legend
Buttons
Selectable tags
Cartographer's iconography — single-weight ink line
Place
Map
Compass
Tower
Amber
"Every street in Vilnius is a sentence; the map is the whole love story."
05 · Field notes
Forms & controls
Inputs sit on vellum with an ink baseline; focus lights up amber. Built for trip planning, reviews, and saving favourite courtyards.
Validation states
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06 · The atlas
Place cards
Each location renders as a small map-plate: an illustrated figure, coordinates, a rating in gilt, and a clear action.
Quarter
54.6803° N · 25.2967° E
Užupis Republic
A bohemian enclave with its own playful constitution nailed to the wall.
Shop
54.6789° N · 25.2898° E
Amber Workshop
Baltic gold, fossilised sunlight — set by hand in the old town's quiet lanes.
In context · Section composition
Fold the map into your pocket
and go find Vilnius.
Curated routes, hidden courtyards, and amber-lit cafés — drawn the old way, for the modern traveller.