Gokarna

Why this icon The coastal trek from beach to beach is Gokarna's signature walk. Source: karnatakatourism.org

Zostel

The story

Morning on the clifftop trail: a traveller walks the reddish earth path over the headland, past cashew trees and a cow dozing in their shade; across the water the next headland's laterite cliff rises under its scrub above a palm-backed cove of pale sand, its shacks and fishing boats drawn up on the beach, while a ferry putters along the coast and a dolphin arcs out of the sea below.

Why this picture

Gokarna's beach trek links Kudle, Om, Half Moon and Paradise beaches by a path of reddish earth over rocky, scrub-covered headlands whose sea cliffs are laterite; only the trail or a small wooden boat reaches the far coves, where palm-thatch shacks stand behind crescents of sand and boats are drawn up on the beach. Cashew trees line the way, cows doze in the shade and Brahminy kites hang on the sea breeze; humpback dolphins surface off the cliffs in the early morning. October to February keeps the sea calm and the path dry.

The sky wears Kasuti, from Karnataka.

The motion

The sea's lines run and the waves come in; the ferry crosses; a dolphin arcs out of the sea and dives; a kite wheels; the traveller walks; the palms and trees sway; the cow flicks an ear; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

Gokarna takes Lagoon #34C2D7, one of the three Waters colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Gokarna

A second scene: another true moment at Gokarna, 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 full-moon night in March on Half Moon beach: a cashew branch hangs close by, heavy with ripe red and yellow cashew apples, and below it a traveller walks the moonlit sand on the moonlight hike; the beach's one shack glows under its palms, a cow stands on the sand, goat's-foot creeper flowers on the upper beach, and the sea's rows run in under the moon.

Why this moment

Half Moon beach lies on the trail beyond Om beach; the walk there is often done as a moonlight hike, and the strip of sand between the sea and the woods has a single shack. Cows wander Gokarna's beaches. The cashew trees along its trails bear red and yellow cashew apples from February to April, and the goat's-foot creeper trails over the upper beach with its pink flowers.

The motion

The sea's rows run and the waves come in on the sand; a low bank of cloud drifts across the sky; the moon's rings turn and the stars twinkle; the palms sway; the shack's bulbs glow in turn; the traveller walks. 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.

The sound of Gokarna

What you hear in Gokarna, each on a card of its own. Nothing plays until you tap.

The beach ferry
A small wooden ferry's engine coughing into life, then puttering steadily, water slapping its hull.
Its own sound · 4 s
Cliff trail
The clifftop path above a quiet bay: waves fanning onto the sand below, a small ferry puttering past, leaves underfoot, sea breeze in the cashew trees.
Its air · 10 s

Gokarna in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Gokarna, 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

Cashew applesOf the place
Cashew trees line the Gokarna beach trek: in spring the red and yellow cashew apples hang from them, each with its grey kidney-shaped nut below.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Goat's-foot creeper on the sandOf the place
Goat's-foot creeper, the beach morning glory, trails over the upper sand of Gokarna's coves: two-lobed leaves like a goat's hoofprint and pink trumpet flowers with a darker throat.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Gokarna 16

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

Say hello to Gokarna's Zobus

Zobu in Gokarna'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 29

Gokarna'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 9

Show all 9

The animals of Gokarna

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

Zebu cowBos indicus
SVG Grey SVG PNG

The kit

Everything Gokarna 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.

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

Profile

Gokarna’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 Gokarna’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

The water flows, and whatever floats rides it. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

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

SVG

City symbols

Gokarna’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

Gokarna’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 Gokarna 5

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

The map we made for Gokarna

32 things to do around our Zostel and Zo Selections, two walks and twelve 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

The phone map

Download the phone map (PNG)Download the phone map (SVG)

1080 × 1350, for a phone or a story. Distances and times from Zostel Gokarna, measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

Its pieces on the map 52

Every spot on the Gokarna 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.