Charcoal Status Effects
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12 hand-drawn status effect frames and duration indicators for dark interfaces
— smoke grey with ember orange accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and
4x.

Charcoal Status Effects is a set of 12 status effect frames and duration
indicators drawn in the hand-drawn style, where every edge is sampled and
nudged, so no line is truly straight. It contains buff, debuff and neutral
frames, permanent and expiring frames, five duration ring steps, a duration
bar and a stack count badge.

A buff icon sits on screen for three seconds and the player never looks
straight at it — they catch it in the corner of their eye. That rules out the
usual solution: a green border for good and a red one for bad collapses in
colourblind modes, and it collides with whatever colours the game itself is
already using on that HUD.

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.

Buff and debuff are separated by shape instead. The buff frame pushes its
corners outward and the debuff frame folds them inward: one grows, the other
eats. Both survive a greyscale screenshot. Duration is a ring around the icon
rather than a bar beneath it, because a bar pushes every icon down a few
pixels and breaks the row. The rings ship as five steps rather than one sprite
because most engines cannot clip an SVG at runtime — a filling ring is either
a shader or a step atlas, and the atlas works everywhere. The frames ship
empty: your own effect icon goes in the middle.

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

  - Put your effect icon in the recessed centre at about 60% of the frame
    width; the recess is drawn with that margin.
  - Swap the whole frame between buff and debuff rather than tinting one,
    because the difference is in the corners.
  - Play the duration rings as an ordered sequence from full to empty, or use
    the ring at 50 percent as the single frame when the exact remainder does
    not matter.
  - Anchor the stack badge to the top-right corner of the frame and draw the
    count with your own font — no digits are drawn here.

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