This is a set of styles that can be used to design maps with 3D symbols. There are three types of symbols: spheres, globes, and bubbles. Each style has a set of marker symbols in a wide variety of colors. Also included are the .bmp files that were used to create the marker symbols in the styles.

There are three styles in this download:

• Spheres See contents...



• Globes See contents...



• Bubbles See contents...

This is a style that you can use to create an aspect-slope map that simultaneously shows the aspect (direction) and degree (steepness) of slope for a terrain (or other continuous surface). Aspect categories are symbolized using hues (e.g., red, orange, yellow) and degree of slope classes are mapped with saturation (or brilliance of color) so that the steeper slopes are brighter. See contents...

The coloring is based on Moellering and Kimerling's MKS-ASPECT scheme (GIS World 1991). Cynthia A. Brewer and Ken A. Marlow modified the colors as described in their online article: Color Representation of Aspect and Slope Simultaneously, by Cynthia A. Brewer and Ken A. Marlow, available online at: http://www.personal.psu.edu/cab38/Terrain/AutoCarto.html. The colors in this style are the same as those defined in the article.

To learn more about this technique, here are some suggested readings:

• Moellering, H., and A. J. Kimerling, 1991, MKS-ASPECT Enhances Color Surface Renderings, GIS World, 4 (October): 30-32.
• Moellering, H., and A. J. Kimerling, 1990, A New Digital Slope-Aspect Display Process, Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, 17, no. 2: 151-159.

This is a style that can be used to design maps for the color deficient. It is in compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Visit http://www.ada.gov/adahom1.htm to learn more about the ADA. The color palette helps in making accessible map color choices while keeping in mind the needs of the color-deficient user or viewer. It is mainly applicable to maps shown in digital displays. See contents...

This is a set of four styles containing color ramps that can be used to symbolize a variety of continuous surfaces.

These are updated versions of the ColorRamps 2.0 styles published earlier. They have been edited in the following ways: redundant color ramps were removed, related color ramps were grouped together, and color ramps that were inadvertently inverted in the previous version were. Specifically:

• ColorRamps3.0_Events.style—The order of color ramps for related environmental events and gradual events was improved.
• ColorRamps3.0_Hillshade and ColorRamps3.0_CartoEffects—Some of the ramps that were inverted in version 2.0 are now corrected in version 3.0.
• ColorRamps3.0_Hypsometry.style— We removed redundant incremental versions, and some of the ramps that were inverted in version 2.0 are now corrected in version 3.0.

When designing the hypsometric color ramps, we followed standard cartographic practice so that when applied, by default, lower values will be assigned lighter colors and higher values will be assigned darker colors. An exception is the set of color ramps for hypsometry (elevation). The colors in those ramps range through hues that relate to hypothetical land cover classes (e.g., green for low, lush valleys; brown for rocky areas; and white for snow-capped peaks.)

There are four styles in this download:

• Hypsometry: These color ramps can be used to depict elevation ranges. The colors related in a general sense to the land cover that would be found at various elevations in different parts of the world. The color ramps include symbology for both terrestrial and bathymetric data. See contents...



• Hillshades: These color ramps can be used for area-specific hillshades, monochromatic hillshades, or bicolor hillshade. These hillshades can be used for either land or underwater surfaces for enhanced lighting effects. See contents...



• Events: These color ramps can be used to symbolize continuous data that relates to environmental phenomena, including active events such as wildfires, gradual events such as desertification, seasonal event such as climate shifts, and water events related to things such as flow direction, currents, and velocity. See contents...



• CartoEffects: These color ramps can be used to create special cartographic effects, like the gradient border on the Crater Lake map seen on Mapping Center. See contents...

This style includes a set of marker symbols to display crime data. They are based on symbols originally available through the crime.style file included with ArcMap. These symbols were designed for use in web mapping applications but are also suitable for desktop work and map production. They represent a collection of 13 common types of crime. (Note: The download is an ArcGIS 10 style. You will not be able to use this in ArcGIS 9.x. Download a 9.x version of this style here.) See contents...

This style was created at the University of Kansas for the Geneva International Centre for Humanitarian Demining (GICHD) and is designed to support the creation of standard map products that can be used by groups participating in demining efforts. The hyperlink takes you to the GICHD website where you can download both the style, which includes the necessary fonts and the style file, and a PDF document called "Cartographic Recommendations for Humanitarian Demining Map Symbols in the Information Management System for Mine Action (IMSMA)".

This is a color map file that can be used with ETOPO1 data. Note that in ArcGIS 10, all raster and color map values have to be positive (this is not a restriction in 10.1), so the elevation values in the raster and the color map file need to be processed so that they are all positive (add the largest negative value to all elevations as a positive value in both the color map file and the raster). See contents...

Standard marker symbols for medical, fire, and police services. The symbols are based on content from several of Esri's fonts and were not easy to find in a single existing style file. See contents...

This style contains European road shields with their real-world appearance. These symbols were used to enhance the Esri World Street Map and World Transportation reference map. You can download the shield symbols from the Map Templates Gallery on the ArcGIS Resource Center website.

The download contains a style with the text, marker, and fill symbols, and Maplex labels that were used to create the road shields. The download also includes an Excel spreadsheet that indicates which shields are associated with each road type for 35 European countries. The spreadsheet contains the sources of information for the symbology that was created as well.

This blog entry explains how this style was compiled: New European road shields designs. Learning the compilation methods will help you follow or adapt the steps to create your own European street map or any multi-country street map with distinctive road shield symbols. And, of course, we think these symbols will also be helpful for people making maps with European highways on them.

Please note: The MS Excel table is based on ©2010 TomTom Europe road classification data that was used for the May 2011 release of Esri's World Street Map and World Transportation Map. Because of this, there may be road types omitted in this table that may be found in other European road data sources. Also, road types whose numbers are usually not signposted were not included in the style.

There are four kinds of symbols in this style:

• Marker symbols See contents...



• Fill symbols See contents...



• Text symbols and Maplex labels See contents...

This style contains simple fills and simple colors in 128 shades of gray. See contents...

This style is designed following Hawaiian influences. "Hawaii Nei" means all the islands of Hawaii. The Hawaii Nei style includes symbology that relates to the flora, fauna, and places on the islands. See contents...

These styles were used to create maps that have an antique or historical look to them. Install the fonts in your fonts directory (normally, C:\WINDOWS\Fonts) so that any character marker symbols that use the fonts will be drawn correctly. We also included some .emf files for you so you can create your own symbols with them.

• Reference Systems See contents...



• North Arrows See contents...



• Scale Bars See contents...



• Borders See contents...



• Backgrounds See contents...



• Colors See contents...



• Fill Symbols See contents...



• Line Symbols See contents...



• Marker Symbols See contents...



• Text Symbols See contents...

This is a set of styles that you can use to create operational overlays and add more reference layers to the Esri Light Gray Canvas basemap.

There are three styles in this download:

• The LightGrayCanvas_Bold style contains colors of high intensity as well as black and white. These bright colors are appropriate to use when symbolizing operational overlays so they stand out from the basemap.
• The LightGrayCanvas_Medium style contains a selection of colors of medium intensity. These colors can be used for operational overlays that should appear to be associated primarily with the basemap but carry more importance than features symbolized with LightGrayCanvas_Light colors.
• The LightGrayCanvas_Light style contains colors in pastel tones that complement the colors in the basemap itself. Because they are lower in intensity (that is, saturation), these subtle colors can be used to symbolize features that should appear as additions to the basemap content.

The colors in each style can be used as a starting palette, so feel free to modify them as desired. To make the colors bolder, increase the saturation (brightness) and, perhaps, decrease the value (lightness). To make the colors less intense, decrease the saturation and/or increase the value. To do that, from the Color Selector (the window with the color patches that you can select from), click More Colors. In the Color Selector, change the color model to HSV and vary the S (saturation) and/or V (value) percentage.

A blog entry on the Mapping Center website titled Canvas Map Color Styles explains how to modify the colors.

• Light Gray Canvas Map: Bold See contents...



• Light Gray Canvas Map: Medium See contents...



• Light Gray Canvas Map: Light See contents...

This is a set of colors inspired by the vegetation map in the 1970 US National Atlas of the United States of America. A blog entry on the Mapping Center website titled Vegetation map inspires a style with great colors explains more about the map that inspired this style. See contents...

This download contains newly updated cartographic symbols for the National Park System (NPS). New symbol files from the NPS were used to create this ArcGIS 10 style, its five associated Esri fonts, and three associated graphic files. The style contains symbols for shadows, line patches, labels, colors, fill symbols, line symbols, and marker symbols. It also contains symbols for map elements such as north arrows, scale bars, legend items, and scale text. With this style, you can use the most current NPS symbology on your maps.

To learn more about the standard cartographic symbols and patterns that NPS uses on its maps, see the NPS web page, Map Symbols & Patterns for NPS Maps.

For the marker and marker line symbols in the style to display correctly, you will need to install the five fonts that are included in the download. To learn about installing the fonts, see Fonts in GIS symbols. Once the fonts are installed on your computer, the symbols will display correctly. Remember that if you share your map with others, you will also need to share the fonts along with the map, as noted in the Fonts in GIS symbols blog entry. Once you've installed the fonts that are included in this download, you can use them to create your own character marker symbols.

Note that we did not include graphics for all the contents of the style due to space and because there are only a limited number of symbols in some of the style folders.

• Labels See contents...



• Colors See contents...



• Fill Symbols See contents...



• Line Symbols See contents...



• Marker Symbols See contents...

This style can be used to design maps with pastel tints. It contains 120 tints that are Level 1 (10% tint of a hue). See contents...

This is a font that can be used to create the wedges for pie charts. See contents...

These image files can make a picture fill symbol for rice paddies, as well as a style that contains four examples of multilayer symbols using the pictures in picture fill symbols. See contents...

This style, created by Jim Mossman, contains a number of color ramps for portraying elevation in different biomes of North America, including those in Vermont and Arizona. See contents...

This style contains a selection of colors (red, orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, green-cyan, cyan, cyan-blue, blue, violet, magenta, and magenta red). The selection includes very light shades and a number of muted shades and is meant to be an optional substitute for the colors in the default Esri style. The download file includes a PDF installation guide. See contents...

This style includes a set of marker symbols to display tree data. They are based on symbols used in the Esri World Topographic map. Using multilayer character marker symbols, the variety of tree symbols you can create is endless. This style is meant to introduce (or reintroduce) you to the Esri US Forestry 2 font so that you can create your own tree symbols. See contents...