Carbon Card Frames
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11 realistic card, currency and notification components for dark interfaces —
near black with warning amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and
4x.

Carbon Card Frames is a set of 11 card, currency and notification components
drawn in the realistic style, where a five-stop specular gradient runs down a
brushed metal face with rivets at the corners. 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 brush texture is a 3px line pattern rather than real noise: noise triples
the PNG weight for a texture nobody can see at 1x. The shadow is layered
rather than blurred so it holds up at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Carbon reading of it: a dark interface on a near
black palette with warning amber accents, built around four corner brackets in
place of a closed border, chamfered buttons at 152x44, hollow-cored bars
divided into 14 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.

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 Carbon family,
which means this kit and the Carbon panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for realistic and simulation interfaces.

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/carbon-card-frames
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
