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Using Humap

Map themes

What are Map themes on Humap?

Map themes let you customise your Humap project with different colours and fonts.

Examples:

  • Tampa Through Time – an archival history of Tampa FL, from the University of South Florida
  • Layers of London – a crowdsourced history of London, from the Institute of Historical Research & partners
  • Scarborough Atlas  – Scarborough history, enriched through the collections of Scarborough Museums & Galleries
  • Senfl’s World – a Renaissance musical history map of Europe, from the University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna

Logging in

  • To access the admin area, make sure you have the Project Admin level permissions and go to your-humap-url.humap.site/admin.
  • If you’re not already logged in you will be redirected to your-humap-url.humap.site/log-in and presented with this screen:

The log in screen for the Humap platform

A screenshot of the Subscription Platform login

  • That will take you to the Subscription Platform home screen.
  • There will be a list of map projects created on your subscription.
  • Click Admin next to the project you would like to access, and you will be taken to the Admin Dashboard of that project.

Customising your Humap theme

  • Once you’re in the Admin Dashboard, click Map Theme in the menu on the left.

A screenshot showing the basic map theme options

  • From here you can click the colour blocks next to Highlight colour and Placemaker highlight colour (if you have Placemaker enabled – ignore if not) to generate a colour picking box:

A screenshot demonstrating how to use the colour picking tools

  • You can use the colour code options at the bottom (click through for more options), click directly on the colour, or use the colour picker tool.
  • For more options, click the yes radial button next to the use advanced theme options subheading. The screen will look like this:

Advanced map theme options

  • To pick a headline font and copy font click the dropdown menu and then select a font from the list.

A screenshot demonstrating how to pick a font

Here is a key demonstrating which colour theming option corresponds to which part of your Humap project.

A screenshot demonstrating how the map theme feature works

A screenshot demonstrating how the map theme feature works

A screenshot demonstrating how the map theme feature works

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