Sangla

Why this icon Kamru Fort — two storeys of stone and five of wood above Sangla. Source: en.wikipedia.org

Zostel

The story

Golden hour at Kamru above Sangla: high on the hill the seven-storey tower-fort of stone and timber stands at the top of the village against the alpenglow, the snow peaks of the Kinner Kailash behind and the Baspa far below, while a traveller climbs the stone steps up through the orchards towards it and a villager in a Kinnauri cap comes down them.

Why this picture

Kamru, two kilometres above Sangla at about 2,900 m, was the old seat of the rulers of Bushahr. At the top of the village rises its fort, a slender tower of two stone storeys and five of wood under a sloping slate roof, above kath-kuni houses of stone laced with deodar; its people wear the Kinnauri cap with its coloured band. Apple and apricot orchards fill the Baspa valley below, and the Kinner Kailash range closes the sky.

The sky wears Khovar, from Hazaribagh, Jharkhand.

The motion

Two yellow-billed blue magpies fly across the whole sky; the Baspa's water lines run; the sun's fan of rays breathes as it sets; the orchard trees sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Sangla takes Orchid #AA5EA5, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in white on it.

Another moment in Sangla

A second scene: another true moment at Sangla, 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 clear October morning in the Baspa valley at Sangla: the buckwheat is in pink bloom, a mule loaded with apple crates stands at the field's edge, and a Kinnauri auntie in her green-banded cap holds out an apple to a traveller: "'Seb' some space in your bags!" The trout farm's raceways lie on the river's bank below.

Why this moment

The upper Baspa grows buckwheat as its high-altitude grain, in pink bloom in September and October, when its orchards ripen too and mules carry the apple crates down to the road; our Sangla maps say to see the buckwheat flowers and to make space in your bags for Kinnauri apples. The state trout farm has raised trout in raceways on the Baspa's bank at Sangla since the early 1960s.

The sky wears Kullu shawl, from Himachal Pradesh.

The motion

A bank of cloud crosses the sky; the sun's rays turn; the buckwheat sways; the Baspa's rows run; the traveller waves. 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.

Sangla in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Sangla, 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 trout farm's racewayOf the place
Sangla's trout farm: the state fisheries department has raised trout on the bank of the Baspa since 1961–62, in long stone raceways fed with the river's cold glacier water.
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Apricots of KinnaurOf the place
Kinnaur's orchards below the snows grow apricots beside the apples: a sprig of the small orange fruit, the Baspa valley's summer harvest at Sangla.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Sangla 9

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

Say hello to Sangla's Zobus

Zobu in Sangla'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

The kit

Everything Sangla 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

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

SVG PNG