Carbon Tutorial UI
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12 realistic tutorial and onboarding markers for dark interfaces — near black
with warning amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Carbon Tutorial UI is a set of 12 tutorial and onboarding markers 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 directional callout
balloons, a solid and a dashed highlight ring, a corner-bracket highlight box,
two step indicator states, a tap mark, a drag gesture trail and a skip strip.

Every other kit in this catalogue covers part of the screen. This one points
at it, and that inverts the rules: a highlight that fills its middle hides the
thing it is highlighting, and a callout that can only point one direction is
useless on three of the four screen edges.

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 callout ships with the tail on each of the four sides as separate sprites
rather than one balloon to rotate, because rotating it throws the shading to
the wrong side and a tutorial balloon is used at all four screen edges in the
same session. The highlight ring and box are hollow, stroke only and no fill,
so whatever is underneath stays fully visible, which is the entire point. The
step dots are countable so a player can see how much of the tutorial is left,
which is the one thing that keeps them pressing next.

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

  - Pick the callout by which edge it sits against rather than rotating one
    sprite; the tail files are drawn so their shading stays consistent across
    all four.
  - Place the highlight ring or box over your target with nothing drawn inside
    it. A scrim belongs behind the highlight, not within it.
  - Use the dashed ring for something the player should press and the solid
    ring for something they should look at, and keep that distinction for the
    whole tutorial.
  - Drive the step dots from your real step count. A tutorial with a hidden
    length is the one players skip.

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