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    Two things that came to my mind:
    - Maybe some of the lines are too thick or too black. Maybe try making the coastlines dark blue and the outlines of the mountains a bit thinner? Just an idea.
    - Some of the labels are nearly unreadable, especially the ones above the mountains and the bright ones on the land.

    Apart from that: I love your idea of a patchwork world and the consequences of sticking unrelated regions together! Really, really cool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Schattenherz View Post
    Two things that came to my mind:
    - Maybe some of the lines are too thick or too black. Maybe try making the coastlines dark blue and the outlines of the mountains a bit thinner? Just an idea.
    - Some of the labels are nearly unreadable, especially the ones above the mountains and the bright ones on the land.
    Thanks for the suggestions. The one about the thick lines will be a little tricky, because I'm not really in the mood for thinning them by hand :-) But I'll experiment with different transparency settings to see if I can improve their looks.

    About the labels being unreadable: you're totally right, but that's a consequence of the drawing being too small. I wanted to put too many things there, and there's not a good way of making them all readable. I'll see what I can do by dimming their background and making the letters a bit bigger. I welcome any other suggestion about how to achieve this, of course :-)

    Thanks again!

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    Wip The land of Hepthys, update 1

    I've heeded Schattenherz advice and tweaked a few things here and there. Mostly I played with the transparency settings of layers and changed a couple colors. I think the result is a bit clearer, but would like to know your opinion.

    Thanks in advance!
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