Natural Resource and Trade Good Symbols
kristof65
Traveler
Finally returning to a mapping project I started nearly 11 years ago, and am in need of some symbols to denote natural resources and trade goods.
Anything out there?
The intervening years of the annual have been good to me in providing everything else I need for this once abandoned project, except that.
Anything out there?
The intervening years of the annual have been good to me in providing everything else I need for this once abandoned project, except that.
Comments
https://www.profantasy.com/annual/2010/june10.html
@Quenten - I haven't found any sets that have more than 4-5 symbols, vector or not. I'd prefer vector, and I may end up making my own, I'm just not looking forward to it, especially if someone else has already done the work.
For the Modern Political style though, do you really need more than a simple dot marker and a descriptive label?
Bogie's symbols under Dungeon dressing has baskets of food. Apples, oranges, onions, a casserole, breads, basket of gourds, different kinds of snacks, squash, and tubs of soup.
Redthorn Tavern has pies, meat on a spit, a bar bottle rack, single bottles, different breads, kettle-stew on a rack, etc.
On my computer.
I don't want to go to dots and labels - I need symbols that can reasonably be differentiated at a glance. I'm doing approximately 90 maps, designed to print out at about 7.5 inches wide, and dots with labels would be too easy to confuse with cities and towns.
I'm slowly accepting the fact that I'll probably have to make them myself, I'm just baffled that in the 21+ years CC has been around that no one's done a single set with a decent variety yet.
So at least some have been done, but I don't care for the style.
I've started on creating my master list, and gathering ideas on doing my own. I have a couple of world atlases that I'll likely be drawing most of my symbols from.
Just as an attachment?
If the catalogs contains raster symbols, then you need to include the images too, so a zip is the best, but for vector, just upload the catalog.
Animal symbols i would like to see: cattle, sheep, goats, pigs,camels (I am an ardent camel lover, and former owner of 3), poultry, fish (fresh and saltwater)
Inorganic products: pearls, sponges, various gems, coal, sulpher, iron, silver, gold, tin, copper, lead (esp important for a culture with magic), other minerals eg bauxite, platinum (?mithril), titanium (?another magic metal), and sign for rare minerals.
You are SO much better at this than i could ever be. I hope ProFantasy will be interested in having these as part of their standard CC3+ (and I know they would pay accordingly).
I also agree that a black outline will help.
At this point, I'm thinking I will power through my list of stuff, do one of my maps with them, then determine if I'm going to add an outline or not. The maps I'm intending these for are political style maps with largely white backgrounds, so a black outline may not be important to me.
Thanks.
Most of those are on my lists already - the last time I check, there was just over 100 items total on my three lists.
I suspect that the catalogs will end up with far more than what is on my lists right now. For example, while I was doing Fruits, I realized I didn't have cherries, bananas or pineapples on the list, and added them on the fly. I know there are many more fruits I can add, like Melons and Berries. I'm sure other areas will "suffer" the same additions. Starting on Vegetables tonight, and I already realized Carrots aren't on my list.
Because there are so many items, I am breaking it up into three catalogs - Agricultural, Industrial and Mineral. Breaking down my initial list into those three categories was tough - for example, is Beer agricultural or industrial? Is Steel mineral or industrial?
Ultimately, the decision I made was this - IF it generally requires a manufacturing process, such as both Beer and Steel do, AND they're manufacturing in such quantity that they're being placed on a map to show them as a major export item, then the process is big enough to be considered industrial in nature. The local inn brewing ales and beers on the side for its local customers is still largely an agricultural process, while the dedicated brewer in the big city who is importing grains and hops from the rural countryside, and shipping kegs of beer off to foreign ports is a far more industrial one.
It may not be historically accurate, but that's my thought process as to why things are in one catalog and not another. There will likely be a few outliers, but in general, that's how they'll be grouped in the catalogs. So when I "finish" with the Agricultural catalog, that's why you won't see some things like Beer & Wine in there.
I'm probably going to do a fourth catalog of fantasy specific items - for example, I have two generic trade categories in my descriptions for the kingdoms that border the Dwarven and Elven realms - Dwarven Goods and Silvan Goods. For the Dwarven Goods, I know I'm going to do a Dwarven face icon. Not sure what to do for Elves. My setting only has Humans, Dwarves and Elves, but to make it more useful to others, I'll probably add in a few more icons like that. I'm going back and forth about Mithril being in that catalog, or being in the mineral catalog. I'm thinking I'll have a couple "halo" symbols in that catalog, too - those will be symbols designed to go around other symbols in the catalogs to denote "magic" or other fantasy properties.
I do see you have several symbols of multiple colors (Apple, Lemon, Pepper). You should consider making some of these varicolor.
Dates
Figs
Beans
Cinnamon
Pepper
Vanilla
Cocoa
Coffee
Honey
Lumber
Sugar
Tea
Wax
Wool
Not quite sure how I'm going to do symbols for a lot of those. I'm sure that list can be greatly expanded upon.
I may move on to Minerals or Industrial for a while.
Coconuts
Oats
Crabs
Clams
Edible mushrooms
Ginger
Kelp