Inkwell Character Sheet
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12 cel-shaded character sheet and stat widgets for light interfaces — flat
poster with signal red accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Inkwell Character Sheet is a set of 12 character sheet and stat widgets drawn
in the cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones split
by a hard diagonal terminator. It contains a stat row and an alternating band
row, three comparison marks, a six-axis and a five-axis radar frame, an
equipment doll frame, an empty and an occupied equipment slot and two set
bonus strips.

The character sheet exists to answer one question, whether this new piece is
better than the one already worn, and the piece of art that answers it is the
smallest one in the kit. Most sets ship the frames and leave the comparison
arrows to the engine, which is where they come out as a font glyph in a set
that draws everything else by hand.

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.

The up and down arrows are separate sprites rather than one arrow flipped,
because both appear in the same comparison table and a flipped arrow lights
from the wrong side. There is a third mark for unchanged, which matters more
than it sounds: no arrow at all is ambiguous between equal and not comparable.
The radar frame ships as grid and axes only, without a value polygon, because
the values come from the game. What the kit owes is the scale, and it ships at
both five and six axes so a stat system is not forced to have as many
attributes as the artist assumed.

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

  - Draw your value polygon over the radar frame in engine; the frame is a
    fixed scale with rings at even fractions, so a polygon can be plotted
    straight against it.
  - Use all three comparison marks including the unchanged one. An absent
    arrow does not mean equal.
  - Alternate the plain and banded stat rows down a long list rather than
    adding your own zebra fill; the band is drawn at a tone that survives the
    family retint.
  - The equipment doll leaves its centre empty for your own character
    portrait, and the slot positions around it match the standalone equipment
    slot size exactly.

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