Amberterm Modals
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15 terminal modal dialogs and system notices for dark interfaces — warm black
with CRT amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Amberterm Modals is a set of 15 modal dialogs and system notices drawn in the
terminal style, where one hue at six levels and nothing else — a phosphor tube
has no second colour. It contains three modal dialogs at rising severity,
three system plates and three system banners, a three-button footer row, a
close button, a layered backdrop scrim and a plain, a focused and an error
input field.

A modal is not a panel: it stops the game, waits for an answer, and sometimes
the answer cannot be undone. The usual way to say that is a red border, which
collides with the health colour already on screen and disappears the moment a
developer retints the kit to their own palette.

The whole set is built from a single hue, including the trace and the marks,
because a phosphor or amber CRT physically cannot show a second one. The halo
is a stack of strokes at falling opacity, which is what the bloom on a real
tube looks like and what a blur filter gets wrong at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Amberterm reading of it: a dark interface on a
warm black palette with CRT amber accents, built around a single bordered
frame, chamfered buttons at 128x46, hollow-cored bars divided into 7 segments,
and two-tone icons on a 32px 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.

Severity is carried by the thickness of the strip along the top edge rather
than by its hue, three pixels for a notice, six for a warning and ten for
something destructive, so it survives any tint and any greyscale screenshot.
The button positions are fixed and deliberate: cancel sits left and raised,
the committing action sits right and recessed. That ordering becomes muscle
memory across a game, and a kit that varies it is how a player deletes a save
by reflex. The scrim is four stacked steps rather than one even wash, because
a single black sheet over the whole screen kills the art it is dimming.

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 Amberterm family,
which means this kit and the Amberterm panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for terminals, consoles and retro-computing interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Keep cancel on the left and the committing action on the right in every
    dialog, including the ones you build yourself from the footer row.
  - Pick the modal by the weight of its top strip rather than retinting one
    sprite. The thickness is the signal.
  - Lay the scrim behind the modal at the size of your screen and tile it: it
    is drawn as discrete steps so it scales without a blur artefact.
  - Use the error input field rather than a red border. It doubles the
    underline, which reads in greyscale and next to a health bar.

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