MapaletteAlphaPaint a new map

Turn a map into art

You are the painter. The map is your canvas. Every street, building, park and waterway is a shape that takes colour under your pointer. Paint them one at a time, or sweep a whole city at once.

  • The Ronde Hoep, whole, painted in Mapalette
  • Hockney’s Santorini, painted in Mapalette
  • The lakefront in gold leaf, painted in Mapalette
  • Manhattan in claret, painted in Mapalette
  • Park Güell rainbow, painted in Mapalette
  • Barbie’s Pink City, painted in Mapalette
Open the GalleryNo account, nothing to install.

Any place is the canvas

Search a city, a coastline, a neighbourhood or your own street. Frame the view you want. From there it is a surface to paint, not a map to read.

150 palettes borrowed from art

Van Gogh’s blues, Miró’s primaries, Mondrian’s grid — colour sets transcribed from paintings, films and design systems. Plus 224 looks that recolour the whole base map at once. None of them right? Mix your own.

Made to keep

Export a high-resolution PNG. Share a link to what you made. Or order it as a framed fine-art print.

And then it is an object

Artwork, not a screenshot. Order it as a framed fine-art print, or take the same high-resolution export to anything else that prints.

  • Miró’s Seven Dials as a 40 × 50 cm printRothko’s Madrid as a 70 × 50 cm print
    40 × 50 cm in natural oak · 70 × 50 cm in a black frame — at their real relative scale. Any of them opens in the painter.
  • Tàpies’ Cairo printed on a mug
    The same export, wrapped round a mug.
  • Memphis Baixa printed on a t-shirt
    Or printed across the chest of a shirt.

Some inspiration

Twelve of the 1000 in the Gallery. Each one opens in the painter fully composed, and every colour in it is yours to change.

All 1000 ready-made maps, in fifteen themes →The maps you have saved in this browser →