Inkwell Crafting UI
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13 cel-shaded crafting and recipe widgets for light interfaces — flat poster
with signal red accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Inkwell Crafting UI is a set of 13 crafting and recipe widgets drawn in the
cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones split by a
hard diagonal terminator. It contains three ingredient slot states, an
oversized result slot, a combine and a salvage arrow, an ingredient join mark,
three quality meters, a known and an undiscovered recipe row and a stepped
crafting progress bar.

Crafting is the one screen where a slot has to say something an inventory slot
never says: not what is in it, but whether you have enough of it. Have,
missing and partly-have are three states, and a set that ships one slot sprite
forces the engine to answer that question in text under every slot.

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 ingredient slot ships in all three states with the difference carried in
the border rather than in a fill: a satisfied slot is closed, a missing one is
dashed, a partial one is closed on the bottom half only. That reads at 56
pixels and it reads without colour. The combine and salvage arrows are
separate files rather than one arrow rotated, because both sit on the same
screen and a mirrored arrow throws its shading to the wrong side. The result
slot is drawn a third larger than the ingredient slot on purpose: the output
of a recipe is not one more ingredient and should not sit in the same box.

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

  - Lay ingredient slots with the join mark between them and the combine arrow
    before the result slot; every piece is drawn to that reading order and to
    a shared vertical centre.
  - Drive the slot state from your inventory count rather than tinting one
    sprite: dashed for missing, half-closed for partial, closed for satisfied.
  - Read the quality meter by notch count, not by length. It is drawn in fixed
    notches so a five-notch result is countable next to a three-notch one.
  - Use the stepped progress bar for craft time rather than a resource bar.
    Crafting completes in discrete steps and a smooth fill implies it can be
    interrupted at any value.

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