Engineering, architectural, and landscape design drawings all currently make exquisite use of hatches and pattered fills to add a dimension of material information to renderings.
Hatched or patterned fills don’t have to be thought of as a bygone substitute for color, but an entirely separate visual channel that can be used in addition to color. On that last point, we ask too much of hue and tone for the heavy lifting of data-dense thematic cartography. Hatched or patterned fills harken to an age of overhead transparency projectors (remember that slap sound when the presenter would drop the transparent sheet onto the overhead’s lightboard? Sounds like college) or scratching Zip-A-Tone patterns on to drafting film (I’m too young for this but maybe you remember it) or small black-ink-on-paper map illustrations for books or journals (still the case)?īut hatched fill patterns are just as useful as ever! Here is an offhand rundown of some of the instances why a hatched fill can be a helpful option:
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