This was the first map I have ever made. Our assignment was to create a reference map of Africa using 5 or 6 distince hues for the countries, labels for all the countries, water bodies and deserts.
Since it was our first map we got to play around with Adobe Illustrator and do what we thought looked best. Since my colors were dark I decided to use white font to make it easier to read. It worked fine over the countries but over the water it didn't work quite as well and some of my river labels are are to read but I was pretty happy with it.