About Fantasy Map Icon Generator
Free fantasy map icon generator. 43 D&D map symbols, 6 hand-drawn styles. Export PNG, SVG, sprite sheets for Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, Foundry VTT. No signup.
How to use
- Pick a category tab on the left — Terrain, Settlements, Fortifications, Sacred and Mystical, Danger and Adventure, or Infrastructure. Each tab opens a grid of icons (43 total) covering the standard fantasy map vocabulary.
- Click any icon thumbnail to load it into the central preview. The selected icon redraws at full resolution every time you change a setting, so you see exactly what the export will look like before committing.
- Choose an art style on the right — Inky for clean Kenney-style ink, Sketch for hand-drawn double-stroke, Parchment for aged sepia, Painted for watercolor wash, Cartoon for bold flats, or Modern for minimal outline.
- Adjust the detail level (Minimal, Standard, Ornate). Minimal works for crowded continent maps where icons need to read at a glance; Ornate is built for hex-by-hex region maps where each landmark gets a moment.
- Pick an export size — 128, 256, 512, or 1024 pixels — based on the scale you need. 256 is the sweet spot for tabletop VTT tokens, 512 looks crisp on a printed regional map, and 1024 handles poster-size hex grids.
- Click Download PNG for a transparent-background icon ready to drop into Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, or Foundry VTT. Or click Save to My Assets to store it in your 3D Assets dashboard alongside the rest of your map kit.
- Build a complete map kit by exporting one icon per category, then group them into a Collection in My Assets. Pair the kit with Foliage Mixer's tree variants and Dungeon Tile Mixer's room art for landscape-to-dungeon coverage.
Examples
Build a regional map for a homebrew D&D campaign
Export Mountain, Forest (Conifer), River Bend, Town, Castle, and Bandit Camp at 256 pixels in the Parchment style. Drop them onto a hex grid in Inkarnate and you have a tonally consistent overland map without paying for an icon pack subscription.
Generate a complete VTT map kit for sale
Build all 43 icons in the Inky style at 512 pixels, save them as a Collection, and bundle the PNGs into a ZIP for sale on DriveThruRPG. The procedural renderer guarantees consistency and you keep all the rights.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use these icons in commercial maps and published modules?
Yes. Icons exported from Cartography Mixer are yours to publish — DriveThruRPG modules, Kickstarter campaigns, printed atlas books, paid Patreon maps, professional VTT tokens, all fair game. ToolFluency claims no rights to your output. The drawing logic is procedural so each export is unique to your settings; no third-party art is embedded that would carry licensing strings.
Which VTT platforms accept these icons?
Wonderdraft, Inkarnate, Foundry VTT, Roll20, Owlbear Rodeo, Fantasy Grounds, Dungeondraft, and any tool that imports PNGs. The transparent background means the icon drops cleanly onto any map texture without a halo. The 256 to 512 pixel exports are sized to match the most common token and landmark slot sizes used by these platforms out of the box.
Are the icons consistent enough to use across one campaign?
Yes — that is the whole point of the art-style picker. Pick Parchment once and every icon you export afterward shares the same line weight, sepia palette, and stroke style. Switch to Sketch and the same 43 icons re-render with consistent pencil shading. You can build a tonally unified map kit without an artist.
Will icons display crisp on a printed map?
For print, export at 512 or 1024 pixels and let your layout app scale down. The procedural renderer outputs clean lines without anti-aliasing artifacts, so you can drop the PNG into InDesign, Affinity Publisher, or Inkscape and it will hold up at 300 DPI on letter or A3 paper. Avoid the 128 size for print — it is a screen-only resolution.
How does this pair with Foliage Mixer for a landscape scene?
Foliage Mixer outputs individual trees, bushes, and shrubs with seasonal palettes; Cartography Mixer outputs landmark symbols. Use Foliage Mixer's pieces for sprinkled forest texture across map regions and Cartography's Forest icon as the legend marker. Both export transparent PNGs at compatible sizes, so the two outputs sit naturally on the same canvas.
Where do icons go after I save them?
Save to My Assets pushes the icon into your 3D Assets dashboard, where it lands in the personal Uploads tab as a 2D asset. Group related icons into a Collection (for example, one collection per region of your campaign world) so you can pull the full set into a layout app or VTT scene with a single drag.
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