Carbon Progression Kit
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11 realistic progression and reward components for dark interfaces — near
black with warning amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Carbon Progression Kit is a set of 11 progression and reward 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 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 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.

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 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

  - 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/carbon-progression-kit
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
