Plate XII
Old Town · Landmark
Gediminas’ Tower
The last brick crown of the upper castle, watching over the confluence since the 14th century.
A Field Guide to the Amber City
An old map redrawn for new wanderers — baroque courtyards, amber light on the Neris, and a hundred doorways waiting to be opened.
Roles before hues: parchment & ink carry every surface and word, amber is the single warm protagonist, Baltic the cool counterweight.
Usage — Ink 900 carries all structure and reading text; Ink 600/400 step down for secondary and metadata. Amber 700 is reserved for amber-coloured text on parchment (it clears AA); Amber 300/200 appear only on dark figures. Baltic grounds figures and the secondary action. Wax red is reserved for alerts and seals only — never decorative.
Four voices, finite roles: Fraunces for display & headings, Spectral for reading, Cormorant for quotes, JetBrains Mono for the cartographer’s labels.
Behaviour — the primary amber action carries the most weight; the cool Baltic save is secondary; “Cancel” is a quiet text button, not a competing border. Buttons lift up-left on hover casting a hard ink shadow, press flat on click, and show a visible amber focus ring for keyboard travel.
The last brick crown of the upper castle, watching over the confluence since the 14th century.
A bohemian quarter with its own constitution, angel, and a river slow enough to dream in.
Baltic gold pressed into rings and pendants, sold from the stalls along the Town Hall square.
“I came for a weekend with a paper map and left with amber in my pocket and the whole Old Town memorised by light.”
Drop your first pin and the cartographer will start drawing the line between your places.
Marks — every icon is drawn at a single 1.4px stroke weight with no fills, echoing copperplate engraving, and lives inside ruled cells like figures on a survey sheet.
Measure — spacing follows a finite nonlinear scale (4·8·12·16·24·32·40·56·72·96·128). Larger gaps separate groups; smaller gaps bind related items — external spacing always exceeds internal.
Elevation — a three-step offset-shadow ladder replaces the old ad-hoc 4–7px values. Depth is solid ink offset + hairline edge (flat-design depth), so every plate reads as pressed paper, and lift on hover signals interactivity rather than mere decoration.