Dusk Shop UI
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12 pixel art shop and economy widgets for dark interfaces — night-violet with
amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Dusk Shop UI is a set of 12 shop and economy widgets drawn in the pixel art
style, where every corner is a staircase of whole pixels and nothing is
anti-aliased. It contains four purchase row states, an active and an idle
category tab, a wallet strip, a quantity stepper, a purchase confirm strip and
three countable stock indicators.

A shop screen has one job an inventory screen never has: it must tell the
player what they cannot afford before they press the button. Most free sets
solve that by turning the price red, which fails for the players who cannot
read that red and fails again on a greyscale screenshot. It also collides with
the health colour every other part of the interface already uses.

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.

The four row states are told apart by structure rather than by colour. An
affordable row carries a solid strip down its left edge, an unaffordable one
carries a dashed strip and a bar struck across its price field, and an owned
one caps the price field shut and marks its top-right corner. That means the
state survives a tint, a colourblind filter and a screenshot with the
saturation pulled out. The stock indicator is countable for the same reason:
five dots, one dot and none read as full, low and sold out without a single
word or hue.

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 rows on their straight left and right regions; the price
    field on the right is a fixed width so a long item name never pushes it
    out of alignment.
  - Use the dashed strip and the struck price for unaffordable rather than a
    red tint. Both are pattern rather than hue, so they hold up in greyscale.
  - Stack the stock dots in the same slot every row uses, and drive them by
    count rather than by colour.
  - The confirm strip and the quantity stepper share a height, so a shop can
    put them on the same line without either being resized.

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