Cartographer's Annuals

Cartographer's Annuals are collections of premium creative content to expand your map-making horizons.

Each volume delivers a diverse array of material, including new drawing styles, unique symbol sets, curated map collections, and specialized tools for specific types of maps. Every Annual also icludes a comprehensive guide explaining the techniques used, helping you build skills and deepen your mapping mastery.

Delivery

The annual comes in twelve instalments, delivered monthly via email and your ProFantasy registration. You can subscribe at any time during the year, with immediate access to the months already released.

At the end of the year we also roll the annual into a single downloadable volume.

2026 Content

• January - Style Pack: Hand-drawn City
• February - Style Pack: Gritty SciFi Blueprints
• March - Map Pack: Fantasy Village and Inn
• April - Style Pack: Hand-drawn City 2
• May - Style Pack: Isometric Sewers
  
• June - Style Pack: Mappa Mundi
• July - Symbol Pack: Here be Monsters
• August - Style Pack: Alien Planet
• September - Style Pack: Black and White Overland Revisited

January - Style Pack: Hand-drawn City

We start the Cartographer's Annual 2026 in January with a brand new city style, that consists of meticulously hand-drawn buildings and other town features which let you quickly build villages, towns and small cities.

The Hand-drawn City style combines hand-drawn symbols with bitmap textures, symbol fills and the powerful city-drawing tools of City Designer 3. It also includes section in the mapping guide that covers creating a text index for this kind of city map.

Style Pack Hand-drawn City includes:

• 1 new city drawing style
• 55 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 68 new bitmap symbols
• 14 bitmap fills
• 1 6-page tutorial and mapping guide
• 2 example maps (PNG and FCW format)
• 2 new effect settings
• 6 new street settings
• 14 new house settings
• 1 true type font

February - Style Pack: Gritty SciFi Blueprints

In February the Cartographer's Annual 2026 dives deep into the furthest depth of the ocean or other technological sites with Ute Gundacker's Gritty SciFi Blueprints style.

The Annual issue provides a technical read-out drawing style that evokes modern or sci-fi floorplan drawings with a special emphasis on scientific outposts and underwater operations.

Style Pack Gritty SciFi Blueprints includes:

• 1 drawing style by Ute Gundacker
• 24 new drawing tools
• 2 new templates (imperial and metric)
• 282 new bitmap symbols
• 8 new bitmap fills
• 1 4-page mapping guide
• 2 example maps (JPG and FCW format)
• 2 new effect settings
• 3 true type fonts

March - Map Pack: Fantasy Village and Inn

The March issue of the Annual 2026 brings you a collection of highly-detailed maps and floorplans showing a fantasy village and its inn, with that building's various levels.

Kevin Goebel's map pack includes several wonderful maps showing the village, the inn and its outbuildings and potentially some secret locations.

Map Pack Fantasy Village and Inn includes:

• Multiple floorplan-level maps (FCW, JPG and PDF format)
• 1 mapping guide
  

April - Style Pack: Hand-drawn City 2

May - Style Pack: Isometric Sewers

June - Style Pack: Mappa Mundi

July - Symbol Pack: Here be Monsters

July’s Annual continues where last month left off and adds a whole new bunch of symbols to the Mappa Mundi style, focusing on the mythical creatures and legendary places shown on the Hereford map.

You can now illustrate your map with such creatures as elephants, lions, and unicorns, but also such strange folks as the Blemmyes or Sciapods .

Symbol pack Here Be Monsters includes

• 100 new symbols in 7 catalogs
• 1 3-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (JPG and FCW format)
• 1 updated Mappa Mundi style template (imperial and metric)
• 1 new true type font
• 1 new master filter
• 7 new catalog settings

August - Style Pack: Alien Planet

In the August Annual we are visiting strange and alien worlds with a new style by Monkey Frog Studio.

Alongside the more “normal” range of symbols the style contains a wealth of wonderfully strange vegetation from which you can build alien and mysterious forests and grasslands, as well as sci-fi structures to build colonies and outposts on a strange new world.

Style pack Alien Planet includes

• 1 new drawing style with 2 templates (imperial and metric)
• 176 new symbols in 5 catalogs
• 21 new bitmap fills
• 48 new drawing tools
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (PNG and FCW format)
• 1 new true type font
• 1 new master filter
• 5 new catalog settings
• 11 new Symbols in Areas Setting
• 2 new RGB matrix settings

September - Style Pack: Black and White Overland

In the September Annual we revisit a black and white overland style from the earliest Annuals, update and expand it with new tools, additional symbols, and the most recent effect settings.

Style pack Black and White Overland includes

• 1 updated and expanded drawing style with 2 templates (imperial and metric)
• 157 symbols in 7 catalogs
• 37 drawing tools
• 1 5-page mapping guide
• 1 example map (JPG and FCW format)
• 1 true type font
• 1 master filter
• 8 catalog settings
• 4 new Symbols in Areas and Fill with Symbols Setting

Further ahead

To be announced.

This is our 20th annual and many of our customers have repeatedly subscribed from the beginning. Every year we balance the content so that the Cartographer's Annual is excellent value no matter how you use CC3+.