About Glacier Arctic Survey
Glacier Arctic Survey borrows the visual grammar of polar field science: the deep crevasse-blue ground of glacier ice, glacier-cyan as the instrument highlight, and the perceptually-uniform sequential Blues that NSIDC, NASA and the IPCC use to map sea ice and cryosphere change.
It is a climate-data aesthetic — contour overlays, hairline axis ticks, mono-tabular readouts and sparse charts on dark sensor panels. Nothing decorative, nothing warm: every value reads like a calibrated measurement off the ice sheet.
- Origin
- Global / polar cryosphere research (Internet)
- Era
- 2010–now (contemporary climate science visualization)
- Key figures
- Kristen Thyng · Cynthia Brewer · NSIDC
- Movements
- Scientific data visualization · Perceptually-uniform colormaps
Glacier Arctic Survey design spec
Colors
Typography
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