Los Angeles Map Poster: an endless grid running into the hills
Why Los Angeles works so well as a map poster
Los Angeles is the great American grid at maximum scale: boulevards running dead straight for twenty miles, freeways sweeping through in ribbons, and the whole pattern crashing against the Santa Monica Mountains and Griffith Park in the north.
The fascination of an LA poster is that scale — Downtown's tight diagonal knot, the LA River's concrete channel, Echo Park and Silver Lake's curls in the hills, and the flatlands stretching away like printed fabric.
Best palettes for Los Angeles
- Sunset — the signature pick: golden-hour gradients — LA's most famous light.
- Noir — LA noir is a whole genre; the map wears it perfectly.
- Midnight Blue — the grid at night from Mulholland Drive — an ocean of lights.
Where to centre the map and which radius to use
Centre on Downtown with an 8 km radius to catch the diagonal core, Griffith Park's dark mass and the river's channel. LA is huge — for Santa Monica and Venice, make a second poster centred on the coast.
Ready-made Los Angeles posters
We have already rendered 5 Los Angeles designs at 300 DPI (Sunset, Blueprint, Midnight Blue, Noir, Warm Beige). Download the files for 9.99 € and print them anywhere, or order a premium matte print (A4 to 60×90 cm) with shipping included.
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Design your own Los Angeles poster
Pick any of the 17 palettes, set the exact centre and radius described above, choose the size and the label text (Los Angeles, or a neighbourhood name), and we render it for you from live map data after checkout. From 14 €, usually ready in 5–15 minutes.
Open Los Angeles in the editor
Which size to print
City maps with lots of fine streets reward size: 30×40 cm is the sweet spot for a desk or hallway, 50×70 cm and 60×90 cm turn the map into a statement piece where individual streets remain legible from across the room. Stick to matte paper so the dark palettes do not reflect. Read the printing and framing guide.