Hyperlane Input Prompts
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16 arcade input prompt sprites for dark interfaces — deep violet with sunset
orange accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Hyperlane Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the
arcade style, where the colour is the body rather than the border — saturated
slabs with pointed ends. It contains square, wide and pressed keycaps, four
arrow keys, four gamepad face buttons, a shoulder button and a trigger and
three mouse button prompts.

A game that supports both a keyboard and a gamepad has to show both, at
matching sizes, in the same sentence — and almost nobody ships that art, so it
gets drawn by hand at the end of a project when there is no time for it.

Each slab is filled with a two-stop gradient running along its long axis, and
the marks are drawn dark on top of the colour rather than bright on top of
black. The pointed ends are part of the silhouette, so they survive being
scaled instead of being an outline effect.

Inside that style this is the Hyperlane reading of it: a dark interface on a
deep violet palette with sunset orange accents, built around two concentric
frames, fully rounded pill buttons at 192x48, glossy bars divided into 6
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.

No letters are drawn anywhere in this set. Embedding a typeface means
embedding its licence, and a baked-in "E" is wrong in every remapped control
scheme and every language; the shapes are here and your engine draws the glyph
on top with the font it already has.

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 Hyperlane family,
which means this kit and the Hyperlane panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for racing, arcade and score-driven interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Draw the key label with your own font centred on the cap face, which sits
    slightly above centre — the offset is what makes the cap look pressable.
  - Swap the pressed keycap in on key-down for a one-frame press effect rather
    than scaling the sprite, which breaks the outline weight.
  - Keep gamepad and keyboard prompts at the same optical height in a line of
    text; the 44px pad button and 40px keycap are sized to match already.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/hyperlane-input-prompts
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