How this site do this with Google Maps?

Question

I came to this site by chance. I see it uses Google Maps, but what they did to the map will be displayed in such a way? (No icons course)

http://abbyputinski.com/#/

Answer 1

The custom map tiles are achieved via Styled Maps. Check out the API reference to see what can be customized and to what level.

Answer 2

as per @Andre said, it is styled.

If you want to play around with the style , you can try it here : FlatUIMaps. You can download the configuration in json format after changing the layer.