Inkwell Card Frames
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11 cel-shaded card, currency and notification components for light interfaces
— flat poster with signal red accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and
4x.

Inkwell Card Frames is a set of 11 card, currency and notification components
drawn in the cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones
split by a hard diagonal terminator. It contains four rarity card frames,
three currency counters, a notification badge and three toast banners.

Rarity is almost always encoded as a border colour, which fails twice: it
disappears in greyscale, and it competes with the item art, which is itself
coloured. This set encodes rarity as structure instead.

The shadow is a single hard-edged shape with no falloff — the defining
property of cel shading, and the thing a gradient can never imitate. The
outline uses the darkest tone in the palette rather than the border tone, or
it reads as a thick grey frame instead of ink.

Inside that style this is the Inkwell reading of it: a light interface on a
flat poster palette with signal red accents, built around a single bordered
frame, square-cornered buttons at 152x52, banded bars divided into 5 segments,
and solid 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.

Each tier adds a countable feature — common has none, rare adds two corner
brackets, epic adds an inner rule and four brackets, legendary adds a crown
band. You can tell them apart at thumbnail size, in a screenshot, and with the
colour removed. The toast banners keep colour to a 6px edge stripe so the
message text sits at the same contrast in all three tones.

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 Inkwell family,
which means this kit and the Inkwell panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for cel-shaded and toon-rendered games.

HOW TO USE

  - Nine-slice the card frames on their flat edges only; the corner brackets
    and the crown band must stay in the fixed corners or the rarity signal
    stretches.
  - Put the item icon in the recessed art area and the name on the two label
    bars below it — the frame is sized for a 1:1 icon.
  - Use the badge as an overlay anchored to the top-right of an inventory or
    menu button, and draw the count with your own font.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/inkwell-card-frames
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