Carbon Quest Log
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13 realistic quest log and objective widgets for dark interfaces — near black
with warning amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Carbon Quest Log is a set of 13 quest log and objective widgets 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 journal entry states, three
objective row states, a reward preview strip, an active and an idle journal
tab and three countable difficulty marks.

A quest log is a list where every row means something different from its
neighbour, and the difference is almost always drawn as a colour: green for
done, grey for failed, gold for tracked. Three greys and a gold later the log
reads as a gradient rather than as a list, and a player scanning it for the
one quest they are actually on has to read every line.

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.

All four states carry their mark in the same left-hand column, which is what
lets a long log be scanned down one line rather than read: active takes a bar
down the whole edge, tracked a wedge, done a tick and failed a cross. Done and
failed therefore differ from each other by mark rather than by hue, and the
column stays legible at any row height. The objective rows are a size down
from the entries and share their left margin, which is what makes a nested
objective read as belonging to the quest above it rather than as another
quest.

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 entries horizontally only; the left edge carries the
    tracked marker and stretching across it would stretch the marker with it.
  - Indent objective rows to the entry margin they are drawn for rather than
    adding your own indent, and the nesting lines up.
  - Use the difficulty marks by count. They are drawn as a countable series so
    a four-pip quest is comparable to a one-pip quest at a glance.
  - Keep the reward strip below the objectives rather than in the entry
    header: it is drawn at full entry width and expects to be the last row of
    an expanded quest.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/carbon-quest-log
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
