Inkwell Emblems
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12 cel-shaded crests, insignia and rank marks for light interfaces — flat
poster with signal red accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Inkwell Emblems is a set of 12 crests, insignia and rank marks drawn in the
cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones split by a
hard diagonal terminator. It contains a shield crest, a round seal, a lozenge
crest, a hanging banner, an open wreath ring, a winged mount, an abstract
sigil, three countable rank insignia, a star medal and a service ribbon.

A faction emblem has to belong to the game it is in, which is exactly what a
finished emblem cannot do: put a wolf head on a guild crest and the crest
belongs to that artist rather than to the player. Most of this set is
therefore a carrier rather than a finished mark — the shield, the seal, the
lozenge, the banner and the winged mount all ship with an empty field sized
for an icon you already have.

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.

Rank is countable rather than coloured: one, two and three chevrons, so the
tier survives a greyscale screenshot and does not collide with the faction
colour the emblem is tinted with. No letters are drawn anywhere in the set —
embedding a font is a licensing problem and a baked-in initial is wrong for
every studio but one, so the carriers give you the frame and your engine
prints the mark. The wreath is deliberately open at the top: a closed ring is
a seal, and the gap is what makes it read as a wreath at thumbnail size.

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

  - Drop your own icon into the empty field of a carrier at roughly 60% of the
    field width; the fields are drawn with that margin so a mark does not
    touch the inner border.
  - Tint a whole emblem by changing the two body values in the SVG rather than
    the accent — the accent carries the field border and the rank chevrons,
    and flattening it removes the structural tier signal.
  - Use the rank marks by count, not by colour: stack one, two or three
    chevrons for the tier. They are separate files at the same bounds, so a
    promotion is a texture swap with no layout change.
  - For a faction picker, the round seal and the lozenge share a bounding box,
    so two factions can use different carriers in the same grid cell without
    any per-faction layout.

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