Coorg

Why this icon Kodagu grows about a third of India's coffee. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

A misty morning in a coffee estate: close by, a branch heavy with red cherries reaches in among its leaves, and beyond it a traveller picks into a basket among bushes as tall as he is, a picker with her basket on her head further down the row, under tall shade trees wrapped in pepper vines; across the valley the hills rise out of the mist.

Why this picture

Kodagu grows about a third of India's coffee, all of it shade-grown: bushes kept to about 2 m under two tiers of tall trees whose trunks carry black pepper vines. The cherries ripen red from October to January, and mist fills the valleys of the Western Ghats on cool mornings.

The sky wears a faint Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

The sun's rays turn; the shade trees and the coffee bushes sway; birds cross the sky. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

Coorg takes Mustard Leaf #E2E418, one of the three Fields colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Coorg

A second scene: another true moment at Coorg, drawn in the graphic vocabulary with the animals and city symbols that belong there. Wide for screens, tall for a phone held upright.

The story

A bright afternoon just after the monsoon at Abbey Falls: the falls pour full down their rock between the coffee estates, the hanging bridge across their pool, and a traveller on the path takes a photo of them, while a Malabar giant squirrel lies along a branch of a pepper-wrapped shade tree and mist lies in the folds of the hills behind.

Why this moment

Abbey Falls, about 10 km from Madikeri, drops some 70 ft between two coffee plantations and is seen from a hanging bridge across from it; it is at its fullest just after the monsoon. Coorg's coffee grows under tall shade trees whose trunks carry black pepper vines, green until it ripens in winter, and the Malabar giant squirrel lives in the canopy of the Western Ghats.

The sky wears Gond scales, from Madhya Pradesh.

The motion

White water falls down the falls' strands and spray twinkles at their foot; the sun's rays turn; birds cross the sky high over the falls; the coffee bushes sway. A 16-second loop.

In the picture

Its files

wide: wide second scene, SVG wide second scene, Animated SVG wide second scene, PNG
tall: tall second scene, SVG tall second scene, Animated SVG tall second scene, PNG

Also in the kit's zip, in its own folder.

Coorg in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Coorg, drawn in the Brand Manual's city language: a monument in the city grey with its openings cut, the things of the place in flat landscape colours. Each comes in colour and in the city grey. Every place's symbols

Abbey Falls and its hanging bridgeOf the place
Abbey Falls, on the early Kaveri between coffee plantations and spice estates outside Madikeri, seen from the hanging bridge built just opposite it; at its fullest in the monsoon.
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Pepper on a shade treeOf the place
Black pepper, Coorg's other crop: the vine climbs the shade trees over the coffee, its heart-shaped leaves alternate up the stem and its spikes of berries hang down, green, reddening from the base when ready to pick; Kodagu grows nearly a quarter of India's pepper.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Raja's Seat, MadikeriMonument
Raja's Seat, Madikeri: the pavilion of brick and mortar, four pillars bridged by arches, where the kings of Kodagu (1600-1834) came to watch the sun set over the cliffs and the misty valleys of the Western Ghats.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Coorg 15

Detailed icons from the library that name Coorg among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Those drawn for Coorg alone come first. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Coorg's Zobus

Zobu in Coorg's own dress, on the palette. Hover or tap one and it waves. Each comes still and alive — idle, hello and hop — for stickers, stories and the app.

Every destination's Zobus →

Female
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave
Male
Still Idle Hello Hop Face Wave

Their faces, poses and moves 26

Coorg's Zobus from the rig: a face for a profile picture, a pose for a story, a move as a still; each opens its file. Every Zobu in motion

The animals of Coorg

Animals and birds the research behind Coorg's picture names, drawn in the Brand Manual's animal style, in colour and in the city grey. All the animals of India

Malabar giant squirrelRatufa indica
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Working elephantElephas maximus indicus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Coorg needs: its profile, its cover, wide and tall, its icon, tile, display picture and lockup, its loop and the symbol becoming it, its second scene, its city map, its city symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

51 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols, its Zobus and its city map included

Profile

Coorg’s page as a story, 1080 × 1920: its cover, its tile, its name, its line and its verbs — for stories, status and a phone’s lock screen.

SVGOther formats

Cover, wide

1600 × 900, for screens: a page’s top, a slide, a share card. The still is the loop’s first frame. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Cover, tall

900 × 1600, composed for a phone held upright: stories, reels, a lock screen. The animated SVG loops in 16 s; where it shouldn’t move, use the still.

SVG Animated SVG PNG

Tile

The icon in one colour on Coorg’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

An object: flat landscape colours. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

A breeze sways the field stalks at its base. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Coorg and turns back — a Lottie loop for stories, the app and the web.

Lottie JSON

Display picture

Circle-safe: the colour, the icon and the name — for chats, socials and the app.

SVG PNG

Lockup

The horizontal lockup, with Coorg under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Coorg’s symbols, each in colour and in the city grey, as SVG and PNG — in the zip’s symbols folder.

See them with their files

Zobus

Coorg’s Zobu pair, still and alive (idle, hello, hop), waving still and as a face (a profile picture) — in the zip’s zobus folder.

Female SVG Male SVG

Also made for Coorg 5

The rest of what the library holds for Coorg: the pattern of its region, the card its links share, each opening its own file or gallery.

The map we made for Coorg

38 things to do around our Zostel, two walks and 13 quests, on one A2 sheet that folds to A6 — a map made for travellers. Print it, fold it, go.

Download for print (PDF)Download the map (PNG)Download the guide (PNG)

A2, both sides, folds to A6. For print: double-sided, flipping on the long edge; at a print shop, the PDF at actual size.

ClickTap the sheet to zoom in

The mapClick to zoom in

The guideClick to zoom in

Its pieces on the map 58

Every spot on the Coorg sheet, by what you go there for, each drawn with a drawing of the library. A piece opens its drawing with its files; the line under it names the other places that drawing belongs to.