Charcoal Character Sheet
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12 hand-drawn character sheet and stat widgets for dark interfaces — smoke
grey with ember orange accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Charcoal Character Sheet is a set of 12 character sheet and stat widgets drawn
in the hand-drawn style, where every edge is sampled and nudged, so no line is
truly straight. It contains a stat row and an alternating band row, three
comparison marks, a six-axis and a five-axis radar frame, an equipment doll
frame, an empty and an occupied equipment slot and two set bonus strips.

The character sheet exists to answer one question, whether this new piece is
better than the one already worn, and the piece of art that answers it is the
smallest one in the kit. Most sets ship the frames and leave the comparison
arrows to the engine, which is where they come out as a font glyph in a set
that draws everything else by hand.

The wobble is deterministic rather than random: the same box wobbles the same
way every build, which is what lets it live in version control. Shading is
cross-hatching, because a gradient under a drawn line reads as a filter rather
than as a hand.

Inside that style this is the Charcoal reading of it: a dark interface on a
smoke grey palette with ember orange accents, built around a single bordered
frame, tab-shaped buttons at 160x52, hollow-cored bars divided into 7
segments, and two-tone 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.

The up and down arrows are separate sprites rather than one arrow flipped,
because both appear in the same comparison table and a flipped arrow lights
from the wrong side. There is a third mark for unchanged, which matters more
than it sounds: no arrow at all is ambiguous between equal and not comparable.
The radar frame ships as grid and axes only, without a value polygon, because
the values come from the game. What the kit owes is the scale, and it ships at
both five and six axes so a stat system is not forced to have as many
attributes as the artist assumed.

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 Charcoal family,
which means this kit and the Charcoal panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for notebook and storybook games.

HOW TO USE

  - Draw your value polygon over the radar frame in engine; the frame is a
    fixed scale with rings at even fractions, so a polygon can be plotted
    straight against it.
  - Use all three comparison marks including the unchanged one. An absent
    arrow does not mean equal.
  - Alternate the plain and banded stat rows down a long list rather than
    adding your own zebra fill; the band is drawn at a tone that survives the
    family retint.
  - The equipment doll leaves its centre empty for your own character
    portrait, and the slot positions around it match the standalone equipment
    slot size exactly.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/charcoal-character-sheet
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