Mallwave Dialogue Kit
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7 vaporwave dialogue components for dark interfaces — plum haze with
sunbleached gold accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Mallwave Dialogue Kit is a set of 7 dialogue components drawn in the vaporwave
style, where rounded and folded corners carry pink-and-teal slabs over a deep
indigo ground. It contains a speech box with a tail, a speaker name plate, dim
and bright continue indicators, idle and selected choice rows and a tooltip
panel.

A dialogue box is the single most-read surface in a story game, and it is not
the same thing as a window panel: it needs a tail that points at whoever is
talking, a name plate that sits on top of it without covering the first line,
and a continue indicator with two frames so the engine can blink it.

This is the one frame style that allows a curve; every other one in the
catalogue is strictly angular. The gradients run across the long axis in two
saturated stops rather than fading to a neutral, because a washed-out
vaporwave gradient reads as a mistake rather than as a mood.

Inside that style this is the Mallwave reading of it: a dark interface on a
plum haze palette with sunbleached gold accents, built around a single
bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 132x40, hollow-cored bars divided into 16
segments, and two-tone icons on a 16px 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 selected choice row is marked by an indent and a pointer rather than by a
colour change, so the state survives a colourblind mode and a greyscale
shader. That matters more here than anywhere else: choosing the wrong dialogue
option is a mistake a player cannot undo.

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 Mallwave family,
which means this kit and the Mallwave panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for synthwave, dusk-set and retro-romantic interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Nine-slice the dialogue box on its flat regions and leave the tail in the
    fixed corner, or it stretches into a wedge when the box grows.
  - Blink the continue indicator by alternating the dim and bright frames at
    about 2 Hz — the two frames exist so you do not have to tint one at
    runtime.
  - Anchor the name plate to the top-left of the dialogue box with a negative
    offset of about half its height so it overlaps the frame.

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