Your journey, printed and on the wall

The map is for you. The poster is for the wall — and it is the only thing here that survives your phone.

What gets printed

The poster is built from the matches you have already logged — the routes from your home city, the grounds you reached, the totals underneath. You do not lay anything out. You choose a style, a paper size and an orientation, and the poster draws itself from your record.

Five styles, and they are genuinely different

Style	What it is for
Classic	Dark, restrained, the map doing the talking. The safe one.
Minimal	Light and quiet. Works next to things that are not football.
Vintage	Warm paper, old-atlas feel, for a long history rather than a new one.
Ultras	Loud. Built for a wall that already has scarves on it.
Cartoon	Playful, heavy outlines. The one people pick as a gift.

Each style carries its own map treatment, not just a different set of colours over the same picture. Switching style changes what the map itself looks like.

Print quality, and what that means in practice

Export runs from A4 up to A1 at roughly 300 dpi. A1 at that density is a large image — a real browser rendering your map at about thirteen times normal scale on a server, then handing you the PNG or PDF.

This is the part that costs us money every time it runs, and it is the reason the poster sits on the paid plans rather than the free one.

What you see is what you get

The export is not a separate rendering pipeline that approximates the preview. It is the same page, drawn by the same browser, at a higher resolution. If the preview shows a cluster of grounds in the Ruhr and one lonely pin in Lisbon, that is what comes out of the printer.

We consider this non-negotiable: an export that quietly differs from the preview is worse than no export, because you only find out after you have paid a print shop.

Before you order a print

Check the orientation against your wall, not against your screen. Portrait suits a journey that runs north to south; landscape suits one that spreads east to west.
Log the missing matches first. Adding one more away day after the print is framed is the one thing you cannot fix.
Bigger is not automatically better. A dense European map at A3 reads better than a sparse one at A1.

The poster only knows what your map knows, so the record comes first. See how the journey map is built.

Where the poster is not the answer

If you want something to post rather than print, the social video export and the share card do that better — they are made for a phone screen and a group chat, not for paper. And if you have been to four matches, the poster will look like four matches. Give it a season or two.