Thanks! I like those shadows as well and worked hard to preserve them.

This is one of my favorite sets so far. I like how Blaeu was clearly working within a system, but each sign has a different look and feel. If you look at the cities, they follow a pattern, but the towers and buildings are all different on each. It's great.

A big reason why I include a whole bunch of the same signs is to allow modern map creators to produce a map that doesn't look machine made. Avoiding repetition is a huge part of that.