"Elevation Tints" is the classic Raven wall map. It uses shaded relief to portray the land and combines shading with elevation tints—a sequence of delicate hues and colors that portray landforms — much more clearly than the abstraction of contour lines. Elevation colors make mountains, highlands, and valleys immediately obvious.

"Land Cover" shows metropolitan areas with shaded relief, as well as highlighting farmlands, prairie, forests and wetlands. Colors show what is on the ground. "Land Cover” maps combine shaded relief with colors representing forests, farmland, wetlands, built-up areas, and so on. These maps are particularly effective in showing geographic characteristics that may not appear at all in the classic ‘Elevation Tint” treatment. Good examples are the wetlands of Northern Minnesota and Northern Michigan or the forest lands of East Texas."

"Night Views" emphasizes built-up areas, shown as if they were city lights glowing at night, with just enough moonlight to reveal landforms in the background. This narrow focus gives a remarkably clear picture of the pattern of settlement. The effect is pretty close to actually being a captured record of the illumination. We are showing “impervious surfaces,” whose variable density distinguishes commercial and industrial uses from lower-density residential areas. The dark blue shaded relief background highlights the settlement pattern, the important theme of these maps.

The "Landforms and Rivers" style is something special. It’s for focused viewing in high-contrast relief of just the major geological features of a state. The series uses relief shading and a careful selection of rivers and streams to emphasize landforms and drainage without the clutter of roads and typefaces as competing visual elements. This series trades comprehensiveness for minimalist elegance.