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K. M. Alexander
Personal blog · kmalexander.comwritingculture
K. M. Alexander's personal blog at kmalexander.com covers writing and culture. Since 2023, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Fantasy Map Brushes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-10, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link K. M. Alexander's free fantasy map brushes for Photoshop, which let people place map elements with a few clicks, plus a #NoBadMaps post explaining how easy they are to use.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The official blog of author K. M. Alexander.
Most-linked posts?
- Fantasy Map Brushes2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-12-21
What Hacker News says?
The linked #NoBadMaps blog post describes some of this, but ultimately there's very little to it: https://kmalexander.com/2019/02/27/nobadmaps/ > Using my brushes is easy: you load them in Photoshop, create a document, and place what you want where you want it with a few mouse clicks. Point-and-click. There’s very little drawing, no scanning, nothing complicated. In fact using any of my brush sets you can make super…
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on “Fantasy Map Brushes”Submitted Fantasy Map Brushes as a story · 448 points
HN discussionbeautiful - also recommend his novels: https://kmalexander.com/home/
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on “Fantasy Map Brushes”Submitted April Is the Cruelest Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionFor rich, authentic old-style maps you want to make at home on the PC (or iPad) is there any better resource than K. M. Alexander's? https://kmalexander.com/free-stuff/fantasy-map-brushes/
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on “The Wisconsin cartographer who mapped Tolkien's fantasy world”Submitted My Kingdom for an Injury Designation as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA valid and relatable viewpoint. I take great satisfaction in keeping my tabletop gaming materials as tangible as possible while many have gone fully digital and never looked back! That being said, I'm a huge fan of Artifexian's months long video series[0] of scientifically approximate worldbuilding with many different and highly technical digital tools. Edit: and furthermore, if I were eget back into "hand drawing,…
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on “Generating Fantasy Maps (2016)”