Kumta

Why this icon The Yana rocks — two towering black karst peaks in the forest near Kumta. Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

Morning at Yana: two black limestone towers rise straight out of the evergreen forest, tufts of green on their ledges and the sun coming up behind them, and a traveller climbs the last stone steps beside a forest stream as a hornbill flies over.

Why this picture

The Yana rocks, Bhairaveshwara Shikhara (120 m) and the slimmer Mohini Shikhara (90 m), are two separate towers of black crystalline karst in the Sahyadri forest inland from Kumta, rugged and fluted, with plants rooted on their ledges; a forest trail and some 260 stone steps climb to their foot beside a clear stream, under tree ferns and tall evergreens. Malabar pied hornbills fly between the tall trees.

The sky wears Kasuti, from Karnataka.

The motion

The sun's rays turn; the stream runs; the traveller climbs; a hornbill crosses the sky; the trees and the tree ferns sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Sky #9CDCF9

Lagoon #34C2D7

Ocean #0072BC

Kumta takes Sky #9CDCF9, one of the three Waters colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Kumta

A second scene: another true moment at Kumta, 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 hot April midday on the road back from Yana: on a village stall's counter close by stand a tall glass of cold kokum sherbet and fresh kokum fruit, and beyond it a traveller sips a glass in the shade of a big tree where a hornbill perches, kokum rinds dry on a mat, and a tiled house stands among areca palms under the Western Ghats.

Why this moment

Kokum (Garcinia indica) fruits ripen on the Konkan coast in April and May; the rinds are dried in the sun and the fruit made into the bright red sherbet sold in the summer heat. Areca palms grow in tight plantations on the roads around Kumta and Sirsi, houses there wear tiled roofs, and Malabar pied hornbills live in the forests of Uttara Kannada around Yana.

The motion

A pair of hornbills flies across the sky; the sun's rays turn; the areca palms and the big tree 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.

Kumta in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Kumta, 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

Kokum sherbetOf the place
Kokum, the fruit of the Konkan and Kanara coast: round, ripening deep red-purple, its syrup diluted into the bright red kokum sherbet that cools the coast's summers.
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Areca palmsOf the place
Areca palms in their tight ranks on the roads inland from Kumta: pencil-thin ringed trunks, a small tuft of fronds, the nut bunches turning from green to orange; Karnataka grows most of India's areca.
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Also drawn for Kumta 5

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

Say hello to Kumta's Zobus

Zobu in Kumta'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 28

Kumta'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 Kumta

Animals and birds the research behind Kumta'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
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The kit

Everything Kumta 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

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

SVG PNG