Practical GIS

Styling vector layers

Let's start by styling some vector layers that we have. First of all, as we have a river style, we should style our water bodies accordingly. Water bodies should have an outline with the same color as our rivers, and a fill with a lighter shade of blue. As we already have a river color, we can simply copy it out and apply to our new style. To find a lighter shade of blue, we can use an online color picker widget. There is a great widget created by Google, accessible by simply searching for html color picker in Google Search: