Kodaikanal

Why this icon Pillar Rocks — three granite columns about 400 feet tall. Source: tamilnadutourism.tn.gov.in

Zostel

The story

A misty morning at the Pillar Rocks viewpoint: three sheer granite pillars, tufts of shola green on their ledges, stand shoulder to shoulder above a gorge full of cloud with the Palani hills behind them, pines rise from the slope below, and a traveller at the rail takes a picture.

Why this picture

Pillar Rocks, three vertical granite columns about 122 m tall, split by deep fissures, rise side by side across a forested gorge in the Palani Hills near Kodaikanal, seen from a railed viewpoint; shrubs root on their ledges and tops, cold mornings from November to February fill the valleys with cloud, and pine plantations cover the slopes.

The motion

The cloud in the gorge thickens and thins; the pines sway; birds cross the sky; the flowers in the bed twinkle. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Kodaikanal takes Valley Blue #4F87C7, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Kodaikanal

A second scene: another true moment at Kodaikanal, 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 May afternoon at Kodai Lake: a plum branch hangs close by heavy with ripe plums, rowboats cross the lake, a traveller cycles the lake path along the near shore, and on the far bank a gaur grazes at the edge of the shola under the pine-covered Palani hills.

Why this moment

Kodai Lake, a star-shaped lake of about 24 hectares at the heart of Kodaikanal, has a 5 km path round it that visitors cycle on rented bicycles, and rowboats and pedal boats on the water. May is the high season, with the summer festival, and the hill station's orchards bear their plums in May and June. Pine plantations and shola cover the Palani hills around it, and herds of gaur wander the town's edges and the golf course.

The sky wears Kolam, from Tamil Nadu and the south.

The motion

Two rowboats cross the lake, their oars pulling; the lake's rows run; the sun's rays turn; the hills' gums sway; the gaur grazes; the traveller rides along the path, jolting over it. 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.

Kodaikanal in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Kodaikanal, 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

Homemade chocolatesOf the place
Kodaikanal's homemade chocolates: dark and fruit-and-nut, made in small kitchens and sold by weight from trays in the town's shops — the hill station's own speciality.
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PlumsOf the place
Kodaikanal's plums: the terrace farmers of the villages round the town grow plums, pears and peppers; in season the red-purple fruit is sold by the basket along the lake road.
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Also drawn for Kodaikanal 4

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

Say hello to Kodaikanal's Zobus

Zobu in Kodaikanal'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 27

Kodaikanal'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 Kodaikanal

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

GaurBos gaurus
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The kit

Everything Kodaikanal 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 symbols and its Zobus — every file ready to download.

44 files in one zip, the cover, its second scene, its symbols and its Zobus included

Profile

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

SVG PNG