34 Map Styles: Dark, Vintage, Neon and More

TrueSize ships with 34 ready-made map skins, from a classic paper look to dark night maps, vintage sepia, neon and thermal color schemes. A skin changes the colors of land, water, roads, borders and labels, and you can edit every color in the Skin Studio to make your own. Your countries keep their true size under every skin.

A collage of several TrueSize map skins including dark, vintage and neon map styles

A few of the 34 map skins in TrueSize.

How to change the skin

Open the Style tab of the ribbon.
In Map type, choose OpenStreetMap, a MapToolkit style, Satellite or Hybrid.
In Skin, pick one of the 34 skins from the list.
Click Customize to open the Skin Studio and edit the colors of your chosen skin.

MapToolkit offers seven separate styles: Summer, Light, Hiking, Cycling, Winter, Dark and Street. These are different base maps, not skins.

Customize a skin

The Skin Studio starts from any existing skin and lets you change about 50 color fields. They are grouped into Land, Water, Buildings, Roads, Borders, Transport and Labels, plus poster colors. You can also switch map layers on or off. Click Reset All Colors to go back to the skin you started from.

Once you edit a color, the skin is saved as Custom on your device. Some layers only show at certain zoom levels, so landcover, buildings and smaller roads can appear only after you zoom in or out far enough.

The Skin Studio panel for customizing map skin colors in TrueSize

The Skin Studio, where each color of a skin can be changed.

All 34 skins

Every skin below is shown on the same map.

The Default map skin in TrueSize — Default

The Forest Canopy map skin in TrueSize — Forest Canopy

The Ember Clay map skin in TrueSize — Ember Clay

The Hazard Pop map skin in TrueSize — Hazard Pop

The Atlas Bloom map skin in TrueSize — Atlas Bloom

The Ink Wash map skin in TrueSize — Ink Wash

The Night Ink map skin in TrueSize — Night Ink

The Crimson Voltage map skin in TrueSize — Crimson Voltage

The Mint Wave map skin in TrueSize — Mint Wave

The Lava Flow map skin in TrueSize — Lava Flow

The Cherry Blossom map skin in TrueSize — Cherry Blossom

The Solar Desert map skin in TrueSize — Solar Desert

The Toxic Swamp map skin in TrueSize — Toxic Swamp

The Sepia Archive map skin in TrueSize — Sepia Archive

The Ultraviolet map skin in TrueSize — Ultraviolet

The Macaron Pastels map skin in TrueSize — Macaron Pastels

The Mono Print map skin in TrueSize — Mono Print

The Wine & Honey map skin in TrueSize — Wine & Honey

The Nocturne Gold map skin in TrueSize — Nocturne Gold

The Electric Afterglow map skin in TrueSize — Electric Afterglow

The Saffron Carbon map skin in TrueSize — Saffron Carbon

The Architect Draft map skin in TrueSize — Architect Draft

The Density Ink map skin in TrueSize — Density Ink

The Oxide Teal map skin in TrueSize — Oxide Teal

The Jade Night map skin in TrueSize — Jade Night

The Gallery Black map skin in TrueSize — Gallery Black

The Fiord Slate map skin in TrueSize — Fiord Slate

The Eclipse Inversion map skin in TrueSize — Eclipse Inversion

The Nautical Chart map skin in TrueSize — Nautical Chart

The False Color Infrared map skin in TrueSize — False Color Infrared

The Phosphor Terminal map skin in TrueSize — Phosphor Terminal

The Riso Duotone map skin in TrueSize — Riso Duotone

The Thermal Bloom map skin in TrueSize — Thermal Bloom

The Blackout map skin in TrueSize — Blackout

Which skin for what

Dark skins such as Night Ink, Jade Night, Gallery Black and Blackout make bright country colors stand out.
Vintage skins such as Sepia Archive, Nautical Chart and Architect Draft suit historical maps and the timeline.
High-contrast skins such as Mono Print and Riso Duotone work well for posters and screenshots.

Skins are not kept in share links, so a friend opening your link sees the default look. To share a styled map, make a poster.

Where it works

Skins, the Skin Studio and the map types are available on the web. The mobile app has its own Style tab; the Skin Studio is described here for the web version.

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