Aetherlab Progression Kit
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11 magitech progression and reward components for dark interfaces — lab navy
with aether cyan accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Aetherlab Progression Kit is a set of 11 progression and reward components
drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry
arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains four skill tree node
states, empty, half and full rating stars, a level badge, an experience ring
and an ability cooldown ring.

Progression screens are where state matters most and where colour is least
reliable: a skill tree is already covered in ability art in every hue, so a
node whose state is only a border colour is unreadable the moment it has an
icon in it.

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 locked node is hatched, the maxed node carries four corner ticks, and the
available node is simply the plain face — three states told by texture and
count rather than by hue. The two rings share one geometry and differ only in
fill direction and colour, so they line up when stacked.

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

  - Draw the ability icon inside the skill node, not over it; the node art
    leaves the centre clear for exactly that.
  - Animate the cooldown ring by redrawing the arc rather than by rotating the
    sprite — the supplied frame is a static example at 68%.
  - Stack three stars at the same size for a rating row; the half star exists
    so a 2.5 average does not have to round.

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