Aqua Card Frames
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11 cartoon card, currency and notification components for dark interfaces —
deep teal with ice blue accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Aqua Card Frames is a set of 11 card, currency and notification components
drawn in the cartoon style, where a heavy clean outline wraps a glossy face
with a single sparkle. It contains four rarity card frames, three currency
counters, a notification badge and three toast banners.

Rarity is almost always encoded as a border colour, which fails twice: it
disappears in greyscale, and it competes with the item art, which is itself
coloured. This set encodes rarity as structure instead.

The gloss is a hard-edged split at 44% of the height, not a smooth gradient: a
soft fade reads as glass, a hard split reads as drawn. The offset drop shadow
is solid rather than blurred for the same reason.

Inside that style this is the Aqua reading of it: a dark interface on a deep
teal palette with ice blue accents, built around a single bordered frame,
square-cornered buttons at 128x40, glossy bars divided into 10 segments, and
outlined 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.

Each tier adds a countable feature — common has none, rare adds two corner
brackets, epic adds an inner rule and four brackets, legendary adds a crown
band. You can tell them apart at thumbnail size, in a screenshot, and with the
colour removed. The toast banners keep colour to a 6px edge stripe so the
message text sits at the same contrast in all three tones.

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 Aqua family, which
means this kit and the Aqua panel kit line up without either being resized. A
good fit for anime and cartoon games.

HOW TO USE

  - Nine-slice the card frames on their flat edges only; the corner brackets
    and the crown band must stay in the fixed corners or the rarity signal
    stretches.
  - Put the item icon in the recessed art area and the name on the two label
    bars below it — the frame is sized for a 1:1 icon.
  - Use the badge as an overlay anchored to the top-right of an inventory or
    menu button, and draw the count with your own font.

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