Inkwell Progression Kit
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11 cel-shaded progression and reward components for light interfaces — flat
poster with signal red accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Inkwell Progression Kit is a set of 11 progression and reward 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 skill tree node states, empty,
half and full rating stars, a level badge, an experience ring and an ability
cooldown ring.

Progression screens are where state matters most and where colour is least
reliable: a skill tree is already covered in ability art in every hue, so a
node whose state is only a border colour is unreadable the moment it has an
icon in it.

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 locked node is hatched, the maxed node carries four corner ticks, and the
available node is simply the plain face — three states told by texture and
count rather than by hue. The two rings share one geometry and differ only in
fill direction and colour, so they line up when stacked.

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 the ability icon inside the skill node, not over it; the node art
    leaves the centre clear for exactly that.
  - Animate the cooldown ring by redrawing the arc rather than by rotating the
    sprite — the supplied frame is a static example at 68%.
  - Stack three stars at the same size for a rating row; the half star exists
    so a 2.5 average does not have to round.

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