ProFantasy's Map-Making Archive

Hereford Cathedral and its display of the Hereford map is on the list of placed I still need to visit – a wonderful example of medieval cartography. While looking at it online it occurred to me that we don’t have a dedicated style to recreate this kind of map, and so I went to work. The June Annual issue is the result of that work: the Mappa Mundi overland style. You can now create medieval-style maps for your games in a quick and easy way. Check out the mapping guide to see how it’s done!

The June issue is now available to download for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The May Annual issue is available, bringing you an isometric, symbol-based style to create sewer maps. Created by Griffin Peak Productions, the symbol tiles slot together on a perspective grid to quickly create detailed layouts.

The May issue is now available to download for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The April issue of the Annual 2026 has been released, giving you a second installment of content for January’s Hand-drawn City style with new symbols and drawing tools.

You can now put your cities, including castles and extensive fortifications on looming cliffs, bury the dead in proper graveyards and cemeteries, and plant lush greenery in city parks and the rural surroundings.

The April issue is now available to download for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

We are proud to present a new contributor to the Cartographer’s Annual: Ute Gundacker, longtime community member and prolific sharer of wonderful maps with a modern or future theme to them. One of her latest endeavors, a scientific underwater site, caught our eye and Ute agreed to make it a proper style for the Annual. The style is based on the Modern Blueprints style from Symbol Set 3 – Modern but goes beyond it by using bitmap fills and symbols and adding effects and decorations that make the maps into proper thematic handouts. We hope you enjoy the style!

The February issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The full setup of the Cartographer’s Annual Vol 19 (2025) is now available, meaning you can install it by downloading and running one file from your registration page.

There is no need to run this setup, if you followed the Annual as the monthly issues were released, but if you skipped some or are only now purchasing the Annual Vol 5, you only need to use this one download.

Until next week the new year’s Annual, the Cartographer’s Annual 2026, is still available at an early-subscriber discount of 15%. Check it out here.

Welcome to a new year and a new Cartographer’s Annual, dear mappers! We start of January with a new city style, completing the trilogy od hand-drawn style that we started last year. The Hand-drawn City style combines hand-drawn symbols with bitmap textures, symbol fills and the powerful city-drawing tools of City Designer 3.

The January issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2026 yet, you can do so here.

The early-subscriber discount is still available for a few days, so you can get it at 15% discount. If you subscribed to the 2025 Cartographer’s Annual and missed the re-subscription offer, let us and we’ll resend the link to you.

The Cartographer’s Annual December issue is now available. We’ve expanded last month’s hand-drawn dungeon style significantly with lots of new symbols, textures and drawing tools, specifically aimed at enabling outdoor battle-maps at the same amount of detail as the dungeon floorplans already possible. Enjoy the large example map of a logging camp and the mapping guide detailing the outdoor parts of the style.

The November issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual October issue is now available. Explore the 10 levels of Delomoro Keep mapped in glorious detaul by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe). Make it your adventuring base, assault it to defeat the evil baran living there, or sneak into its cellars to steal its treasures.

The October issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual September issue is now available. Enjoy a beautiful selection of compass roses and scalebars by Gerri Broman (aka Shessar) to use in any of your maps. Learn how to make them available in various ways in any drawing style by reading the accompanying mapping guide.

The September issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.

The Cartographer’s Annual August issue is now available. Explore the pirate hideout Fort Morgan mapped by Kevin Goebel (Royal Scribe) as his first contribution to the Annual. Four detailed location maps with annotations and descriptions await you in this beautiful map pack.

The July issue is now available for all subscribers from their registration page. If you haven’t subscribed to the Annual 2025 yet, you can do so here.