Tirthan

Why this icon The Tirthan is famous for its trout. Source: greathimalayannationalpark.org

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The story

A bright late-spring morning on the Tirthan: a traveller fly-fishing from the far bank casts a long line across the river past its boulders, a water redstart perched on one, and a brown trout leaps clear of the near water.

Why this picture

The Tirthan, which runs down from the Great Himalayan National Park past Gushaini to Banjar, is known as the trout valley. Brown trout were brought to the Himalaya from 1868; in late spring, before the monsoon clouds the snowmelt, insects hatch over the clear water and the trout rise and leap for them, under deodar slopes and the park's snow peaks.

The motion

The water lines run, row against row, and break white at the boulders; drops of the splash rise and fall; the redstart flicks its tail; the sun's rays turn; two birds cross the sky; the deodars sway. A 16-second loop.

Colour

Orchid #AA5EA5

Valley Blue #4F87C7

Blush #F6ADCD

Tirthan takes Blush #F6ADCD, one of the three Valleys colours — with its icon in Steel Grey on it.

Another moment in Tirthan

A second scene: another true moment at Tirthan, 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 golden October afternoon at a deep pool of the Tirthan, seen at the water's level: under the surface a brown trout holds in the clear current over the stones of the bed, a kingfisher watches from a boulder, and a traveller sits on a rock at the bank with the fly rod and net leaned beside him, under the deodar slopes and a riverside house.

Why this moment

The Tirthan, flowing down from the Great Himalayan National Park past Gushaini and Banjar, is known as the trout valley, and outside the monsoon its snowmelt runs crystal clear, so the trout can be seen holding in the pools. Autumn brings cool, crisp air and clear skies. Kingfishers hunt the Himalayan rivers below about 1,800 m, and riverside homestays of wood and stone line the banks.

The sky wears Kullu shawl, from Himachal Pradesh.

The motion

The water lines run along the surface, row against row; bubbles rise from the bed; a cloud bank crosses the sky; the kingfisher bobs on its boulder; the deodars sway; the sun's rays turn. 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.

Tirthan in symbols

Beside its icon, the things that are Tirthan, 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

Fly rod and netOf the place
The Tirthan, 'Trout fish valley': brown trout came to these rivers in the nineteenth century and the valley is fished with the fly — the rod, its cork grip and reel, the line unrolling in its loop, the landing net. (The trout itself is the icon, so it is left out.)
SVG Grey SVG PNG
Western tragopanOf the place
The western tragopan, Himachal's state bird (2007): the Tirthan valley is the gateway to the Great Himalayan National Park, the bird's home, where it is studied. The male is near-black, starred all over with white spots, a deep crimson patch down the neck, red facial skin and a bare blue throat.
SVG Grey SVG PNG

Also drawn for Tirthan 5

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

Say hello to Tirthan's Zobus

Zobu in Tirthan'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

Tirthan'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 kit

Everything Tirthan 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

Tirthan’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 Tirthan’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

Points twinkle behind the peak, or clouds drift past. 7.2 s, seamless.

Animated SVG Lottie JSON

Motion

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

SVG

City symbols

Tirthan’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

Tirthan’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 Tirthan 5

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

The map we made for Tirthan

36 things to do around our five Zostels, 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 Homes Tirthan (Gushaini), measured on OpenStreetMap routing. Map for representation purposes only.

Its pieces on the map 57

Every spot on the Tirthan 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.