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[edit] Senufo languages

The balanced choice of neutral (but not tasteless) colors, and a strong but hand picked typography makes this map unexpectedly attractive. It´s a simple, but a small jewel of graphic design ; Made by User:Mark Dingemanse (see also other of his works) for the senufo group of languages.

• Nominate and support. - Alexandre Van de Sande 9 July 2005 03:17 (UTC)
• How about giving us a geographical reference so we know what we're looking at? TomStar81 9 July 2005 06:56 (UTC)
  • Er, the names of the countries are in the map - Ivory Coast, Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana...Dunc|☺ 9 July 2005 07:32 (UTC)
    • The Ivory Coast is in Africa?!? When did that happen? I thought it was part of France. At any rate, You answered my question. Thanx TomStar81 9 July 2005 09:30 (UTC)
      • The Ivory Coast is in France?!?!? Time to acquaint yourself with a map of the world? — Trilobite (Talk) 02:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
        • Yes, it is time I acquaint myself with a map of the world. In the meantime, allow me to support this map. TomStar81 21:15, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
• Fantastic color choice, and really great typography (notice the green area so nicely accomodates "Duun"). However, the map is a little confusing, as it's tough to identify the national boundaries (especially on the thumbnail) and the river and border create a new kind of line on Ghana's border, making the frame of reference especially confusing. For those familiar with the geography I'm sure it's fine. Furthermore, the language groups are also a bold font while country names are not (a statement about the meaning of borders, perhaps?). And however tasteful it is, it is also somewhat boring. - Matthew Cieplak ^{(talk) (edits)} 08:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Thanks for your comments. I could try to add a little picture of Africa (like the one on the top right corner of Image:Nubia today.png) to provide some context. I don't think the country names need to be bolded. — mark ✎ 10:25, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
• Yes, a "where in Africa" inset would be welcome. I'd also suggest the language group texts don't need to be underscored (they're already bold and in a different font, so the underscoring seems like visual noise to me). It would also be nice if the Karaboro and Nafaanra labels managed to dip a toe into the little areas they describe. The Black Volta line seems to go under the main green blob, when it should be on top. It would be nice to have miles as well as km on the scale (say km on top, miles on bottom). Ideally the little "island" in the Suppire area should have a label saying which other language is spoke there. The Sikasso label should be moved so it doesn't touch the Mali/BF border. Would it be possible to smooth the river vectors, as both are angular in exactly the way rivers aren't? Also, would it be meaningful to use several shades of green for the several Senufo languages? Oh, and I think the whole thing should be much bigger (for futureproofing and paper hardcopy), and ideally you'd upload the editor source file (uuencoded if necessary). -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:07, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
• Support this very nice map. Clear, informative, well-sourced, and sufficiently impressive that it could pass as a copyvio scanned from a professional publication! I'm not sure a context map is really needed, as the countries are named in nice big letters, but a small one as an inset would be tolerable I suppose. — Trilobite (Talk) 02:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support this professional and highly informative map. - Mustafaa 13:53, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support - most excellent - Adrian Pingstone 16:15, 12 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support its nice--Shivu 13:21, July 14, 2005 (UTC)
• Support but the association between some of the language subfamily labels and the green regions isn't always clear - Karaboro looks like it could be the name of the area bordered by the Black Volta. It might be an idea to use dark green for the language group labels to help distinguish them from the country and town labels and tie them into the green shaded regions. -- Solipsist 07:39, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
• Support. — Stevey7788 (talk) 21:13, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

Promoted Image:Senufo_languages.png 8 / 0 / 0 --Spangineer (háblame) 21:51, July 25, 2005 (UTC)