Aetherlab Navigation Kit
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15 magitech navigation and input components for dark interfaces — lab navy
with aether cyan accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Aetherlab Navigation Kit is a set of 15 navigation and input components drawn
in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane
colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains active and inactive tabs, a
scrollbar track, thumb and two arrows, a dropdown in closed and open states
with its menu, idle and focused text fields and round close, back, plus and
minus buttons.

Most free UI kits stop at panels and buttons, which means the first settings
screen you build is the moment you start drawing your own art. This is the
rest of it: the parts a menu actually needs before it works.

The pointed corners come from the shape vocabulary rather than from a fantasy
frame, and that is deliberate: this style is the tech half of magitech, not
the carved half. Gradients and outlined compositions alternate through the set
so a spell panel and an instrument panel can share one screen.

Inside that style this is the Aetherlab reading of it: a dark interface on a
lab navy palette with aether cyan accents, built around a single bordered
frame, chamfered buttons at 144x36, hollow-cored bars divided into 22
segments, and two-tone icons on a 24px grid. Those measurements are why two
families can share an art style without being interchangeable: the style
decides how an edge is drawn, the numbers decide what the interface is for.

The focused text field widens its outline instead of only changing colour,
because a focus ring that is only a hue disappears in high-contrast mode and
takes keyboard navigation with it. The active tab merges into the surface
below it rather than just brightening, which is what makes it read as
connected.

Every sprite ships as an editable SVG and as transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x,
so you can drop the PNGs straight into an engine or open the vector and change
a colour. Built to the same measurements as the rest of the Aetherlab family,
which means this kit and the Aetherlab panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for magitech, alchemy and arcane-science interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Nine-slice the scrollbar track vertically only; the thumb is a separate
    sprite so you can size it to the content ratio without stretching the grip
    lines.
  - The dropdown menu is a separate sprite from the closed control — draw it
    on a layer above everything else, or it clips inside the panel that owns
    it.
  - Use the plus and minus round buttons as a stepper pair at the same size as
    the close button so a settings row keeps one rhythm.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/aetherlab-navigation-kit
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
