About Trekking Permit 1980
A permit is not a poster. This one is a yellow card, printed once in violet ink, then finished by other hands — a typewriter filling the route line, a clerk's ballpoint, a rubber seal pressed at whatever angle the wrist allowed.
The design lives in that division of labour. The printed layer is orderly: ruled boxes, Devanagari left, English centre, a photo well top right. The added layer is crooked and blotted. Keep both, and keep them separate.
- Origin
- Kathmandu, Nepal — issued for Solukhumbu, Annapurna and Langtang
- Era
- 1950–1990 Panchayat-era state printing; sampled reference is a 1981 Everest-region permit
- Key figures
- Ministry of Home Panchayat Affairs · Central Immigration Office, Kathmandu · Pokhara Immigration Office
- Movements
- Panchayat-era state bureaucratic printing · letterpress form design · expedition and trekking documentation
Trekking Permit 1980 design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Libre BaskervilleHeadings
Courier PrimeMono
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