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
Roles before hues. Warm paper and ink neutrals carry every surface and text pair; amber holds the brand, copper drives interaction, and aged verdigris gives the maps their cartographic soul. Each family ships as a shade ramp.
Paper
Neutral · surfaces
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Ink
Neutral · text
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Amber
Primary · brand
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Copper / Rust
Accent · danger
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Verdigris
Support · success
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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. Sizes come from a fixed scale.
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 nonlinear rhythm in 4px steps — like graticule lines. One token set drives gaps, padding, and stacking across the whole guide.
4
s-1
8
s-2
16
s-4
24
s-5
32
s-6
48
s-7
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s-8
96
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04 · Instruments
Buttons, marks & legend
A single emphasis ladder: one solid primary action per view, a warm brand action, a quiet outline, and text links. Every control defines hover, active, focus, and disabled.
Action ladder
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 sunken vellum with an ink baseline; focus lights up amber with a 3px ring. State is carried by colour and an icon plus text — never colour alone.
Validation states
✓ Looks good
⚠ This field can't be empty
06 · The atlas
Place cards
Each location renders as a small map-plate: an illustrated figure, coordinates, a rating in gilt, and one clear action. An empty state completes the set.
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.
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Mark a courtyard, a café, or a viewpoint and it will appear here as a new plate in your atlas.
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.