Delhi

Why this icon India Gate, exactly as the Brand Manual draws it. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Dusk on the lawns of Kartavya Path: India Gate glows warm in its floodlights against a violet sky as the moon rises and the avenue's lamps come on; families stroll and sit out on the lawns, and a traveller with an ice cream from the cart looks up at the arch.

Why this picture

India Gate (Lutyens, 1931), the 42 m arch at the end of Kartavya Path, a cornice over a sunburst frieze and a stepped attic above its great arch, stands on a low base of red Bharatpur stone and is floodlit from 7 pm; on cool February and March evenings families stroll and sit out on its lawns, where ice-cream carts wait by the long water channels. Jamun trees line the avenue and the semal flowers red in late winter; black kites wheel over the city and rose-ringed parakeets fly home at dusk. The arch stands empty: the flame moved to the National War Memorial in 2022.

The motion

The moon's rings turn; the lamps come on in turn; the water line in the channel runs; parakeets fly home across the sky; two kites wheel; the trees sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Rani Pink #ED145A

Apricot #FFCE7B

Gulabi #EE3C96

Delhi takes Rani Pink #ED145A, one of the three Flowers colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Delhi

A second scene: another true moment at Delhi, 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 winter morning on the Old Delhi food walk: at the end of Chandni Chowk the Red Fort's Lahori Gate stands in its red sandstone against a clear sky, a traveller has come out of the lanes with a steel plate of hot parathas, a paratha cart works at the road's edge, a green-and-yellow CNG auto waits for a fare, black kites wheel high over the fort and a parakeet sits in the neem.

Why this moment

The Lahori Gate is the Red Fort's main entrance (Shah Jahan, 1639-48; UNESCO 2007), facing west down Chandni Chowk, so the morning sun stands behind it. Paranthe Wali Gali, a lane off Chandni Chowk, has fried stuffed parathas in ghee since the 1870s, and Zostel's Delhi map sends travellers on a chaat, paranthe and jalebi crawl there. Delhi's autos are green and yellow since they all moved to CNG (1998). Black kites wheel over Old Delhi in numbers, and rose-ringed parakeets live in its neems. Winter mornings (November to February) are clear between the fogs.

The sky wears Phulkari, from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi.

The motion

Two black kites wheel high over the fort; a parakeet flock crosses the sky; the sun's rays turn; steam rises off the tawa; the neems 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.

Delhi in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Delhi, 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

The Red Fort, Lahori GateMonument
The Red Fort (Shah Jahan, 1639-48; UNESCO 2007): its red sandstone walls and the Lahori Gate, the main entrance on the Chandni Chowk side — a tall pointed arch between two octagonal towers capped by open pavilions, a gallery of small domed kiosks over the arch.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Qutub MinarMonument
Qutb Minar (begun c. 1199; UNESCO 1993): 72.5 m, the world's tallest brick-and-stone minaret of its age — five fluted storeys, each ringed by a balcony on muqarnas corbels, tapering from 14.3 m to 2.7 m; no cupola since 1848.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
The CNG auto-rickshawOf the place
Delhi's green-and-yellow CNG auto-rickshaw: since the Supreme Court's 1998 order every auto runs on CNG, and the green-and-yellow livery tells it from the old black-and-yellow petrol autos.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Parathas from Paranthe Wali GaliOf the place
Paranthe Wali Gali, Chandni Chowk (parathas sold here since the 1870s): stuffed parathas fried in ghee, served with tamarind and mint chutneys and a mixed pickle.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Delhi 58

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

Say hello to Delhi's Zobus

Zobu in Delhi'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 30

Delhi'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

Faces 20

Poses 10

Show all 10

The animals of Delhi

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

Black kiteMilvus migrans
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Rose-ringed parakeetPsittacula krameri
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Delhi 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.

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

Profile

Delhi’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 Delhi’s own — for a grid, a story, a sticker.

SVG PNG

Icon

A monument: city grey, its detail cut out. Transparent; the mono takes any one colour.

SVG PNG Mono SVG

Loop

Festival bunting flutters above it, or confetti points twinkle. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

The symbol becomes Delhi 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 Delhi under the wordmark — for signage, email and merch.

SVG

City symbols

Delhi’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

Delhi’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 Delhi 5

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

The map we made for Delhi

58 things to do around our Zostel, two walks and 17 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 83

Every spot on the Delhi 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.