Poombarai

Why this icon Poombarai grows Kodaikanal hill garlic (GI-tagged, 2019). Source: en.wikipedia.org

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The story

A cool, misty morning in Poombarai: little mushrooms push up through the grass at the edge of the terraces, close by, while young garlic grows in rows on the terraces stepping up to the village's bright roofs and a traveller on the terrace path holds a glass of chai.

Why this picture

Poombarai, a hill village at 1,920 m in the Palani Hills, grows Kodaikanal malai poondu, the GI-tagged hill garlic, on stepped terraces round its bright-roofed houses. In the cool, damp months small mushrooms come up in the grass along the terrace edges, and on winter mornings cloud fills the valleys below the village.

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

The motion

Dew glints on the grass; the mushrooms and the long blades stir; clouds drift over the hills; birds cross the sky; steam rises from the chai; the pines sway; the sun's rays turn. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Mustard Leaf #E2E418

Jade #04B495

Paddy Green #B2D234

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

Another moment in Poombarai

A second scene: another true moment at Poombarai, 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 evening on the road above the valley: across it the village stands on its spur in its pastel colours with the lights coming on in its windows, as cloud fills the valley below under a rising moon; on the near side the explorer stops on the road to look across, beside a roadside stall of forest honey, while a Nilgiri langur walks along the road's edge.

Why this moment

Poombarai, 20 km from Kodaikanal at about 1,900 m in the Palani hills, is a village of colourful houses stacked on a spur above its terraced garlic and carrot fields, seen whole from the Kodaikanal road across the valley; in winter cloud and fog fill the valleys below it. Wild honey gathered in the hills' forests is sold in the villages and along the roads, and the Nilgiri langur lives in the shola around Mannavanur and the upper Palanis.

The motion

The moon's rings turn and a low bank of cloud drifts across the sky; the stars twinkle; the village's windows glow up in turn and the stall's bulb flickers; the langur walks along the road's edge and back. 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.

Poombarai in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Poombarai, 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

Poombarai's houses on the terracesOf the place
Poombarai, at 1,920 m in the heart of the Palani Hills: a village of small bright and pastel houses with red-tiled and coloured roofs clustered on its rise, ringed by the stepped vegetable terraces it farms.
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Wild forest honeyOf the place
Wild forest honey from the Palani Hills' shola and forest, sold by the jar in Poombarai beside its hill garlic — the rock bees' combs hang open from cliffs and high branches.
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Also drawn for Poombarai 2

Detailed icons from the library that name Poombarai among their places: one drawing, on the page of every place it belongs to. Every detailed icon

Say hello to Poombarai's Zobus

Zobu in Poombarai'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 23

Poombarai'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 Poombarai

Animals and birds the research behind Poombarai'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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Nilgiri langurSemnopithecus johnii
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The kit

Everything Poombarai 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

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

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