Three Palettes, One Library
Every chart in our 160-region library, rendered in three distinct aesthetics. Find the one that fits your space.
Three palettes, side by side.
Approaches To New York - Nantucket Shoals To Five Fathom Banks
Traditional
Traditional is where we started. Nineteen years ago, we set out to take NOAA's official nautical charts and make them worth hanging on a wall — not just folding into a drawer on the boat. The result is the palette you see today: warm tan land, clear blue water, careful black bathymetry, and the orange channel markings every boater knows by heart.
If you've ever stood at a chart table in a navigation room or thumbed through your grandfather's collection of paper charts, you've seen this kind of palette. It hasn't changed because it didn't need to. Now joined by two new palettes, Traditional remains our most popular line and our recommendation for the classic coastal home, study, or boathouse.
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Heritage Edition
Heritage was designed for the room you grew up imagining yourself in. The study with the leather chairs. The library with the brass lamp. The Newport summer cottage with the heart-pine floors. Warm cream land, a teal-leaning water tone that recalls the patina of an old chart in a frame, and burnt orange channel markings that read as focal points rather than warnings.
Every chart in our library is available in Heritage. The difference is in the warmth. Where Traditional sits cleanly and brightly on a white wall, Heritage glows against deeper paint tones, wood paneling, and warmer interiors. If your space leans collected, layered, and timeless, this is your palette.
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Modern Edition
Modern was designed to compete with the contemporary art print, not the marine catalog. Deep navy water that carries real tonal depth from inland bays to deep ocean. Cool gray-white land. Sage marshes that read as soft botanical accents. And orange used sparingly — only on compass roses, channel markings, and shipping lanes, where it serves as a graphic device rather than a flood of color.
The result is a nautical chart that holds its own in a design-forward home. It pairs naturally with white walls, brushed nickel, weathered oak, and the contemporary coastal aesthetic that's defined interior design for the last decade. It also stands alone as graphic art — large-format Modern charts of open ocean work as confident statement pieces even for buyers who've never set foot on a boat.
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Which palette should I choose?
The honest answer is it depends on your room. If your space leans classic — wood paneling, heritage finishes, warm paint tones, leather and brass — Heritage tends to feel most at home. If your space leans contemporary — white walls, brushed metals, natural wood, modern furniture — Modern is usually the right call. Traditional is the safe choice for almost any home, especially coastal-themed rooms, boathouses, and casual decor. When in doubt, Traditional is what nineteen years of customers keep coming back for.
What actually changes between the palettes?
The chart underneath stays the same — same coastlines, same channel markings, same labels, drawn from the same NOAA source we've used since the company started. What changes is the palette treatment, and it changes a lot. A Modern rendering of Boston Harbor reads as contemporary graphic art on a white wall. A Heritage rendering of the same chart reads as a hand-tinted survey in a paneled study. Traditional reads as a classic chart in a boathouse or den. Same coastline, three completely different objects for the wall.
Are these charts meant for navigation?
No — these are decorative wall art. The chart data is drawn from NOAA charts at the time of production, but we don't update our prints against Notice to Mariners, so the channel markings, depths, and navigation aids will fall out of date as NOAA revises the underlying charts. For actual navigation, use current official NOAA charts or an up-to-date electronic chart system.
Why are Heritage and Modern priced higher than Traditional?
Heritage and Modern were each designed for a specific kind of interior. Heritage was made to glow against wood paneling, leather, and warm paint tones — the rooms where a Traditional chart can read as too bright. Modern was made to hold its own next to contemporary art on a white wall — the rooms where a chart can read as out of place. The premium reflects what they're designed to do: belong in those rooms, alongside the rest of your art. Traditional remains at its original pricing for the classic coastal home, study, and boathouse — where it has always belonged.
Will you add more palettes in the future?
A fourth palette — Seafoam — is currently in development and will join the library in the months ahead. After that, we'll continue listening to customers and seeing where the next palette direction wants to go. We don't add palette lines lightly. Each one represents months of color work to render consistently across the full library.
I bought a Traditional chart years ago. Can I order the matching Heritage or Modern?
Yes. Every chart in our current library is available in all three palettes. So if you originally ordered Boston Harbor Traditional, you can order Boston Harbor in Heritage or Modern with confidence that it's the same coastline and the same framing options — just a different aesthetic for a different room.
Do all chart sizes come in all palettes?
Yes. Our standard sizes (16x24, 20x30, 24x36, 32x48, and 36x54) are available across all three palettes. Custom framing options are also available across all three.
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