Dusk Quest Log
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13 pixel art quest log and objective widgets for dark interfaces —
night-violet with amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Dusk Quest Log is a set of 13 quest log and objective widgets drawn in the
pixel art style, where every corner is a staircase of whole pixels and nothing
is anti-aliased. 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 outline steps in 4px units and shading is a Bayer dither rather than a
gradient, so the set survives being scaled by an integer factor — which is the
only way pixel art can be scaled without turning to mush.

Inside that style this is the Dusk reading of it: a dark interface on a
night-violet palette with amber accents, built around a header band across the
top of the frame, square-cornered buttons at 96x32, tick-marked bars divided
into 6 segments, and solid icons on a 16px 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 Dusk family, which
means this kit and the Dusk panel kit line up without either being resized. A
good fit for pixel-art games.

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/dusk-quest-log
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
