Mint Backdrops
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7 flat background and overlay pieces for dark interfaces — blue-grey with mint
green accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Mint Backdrops is a set of 7 background and overlay pieces drawn in the flat
style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains a
full-screen menu backdrop, a seamless pattern tile, a modal dimming overlay, a
title banner, a section divider and a loading bar track and fill.

This is the piece most free UI kits leave out entirely. A kit that gives you
panels and buttons but nothing to put them on stops being useful at the first
screen you build, and the backdrop is the one thing you cannot fake with a
flat colour without the whole menu looking unfinished.

Depth comes only from a layered soft shadow — three stacked passes rather than
a blur filter, because some SVG rasterisers scale a blur wrongly and the 4x
PNG comes out as a smear. Everything else is one solid colour.

Inside that style this is the Mint reading of it: a dark interface on a
blue-grey palette with mint green accents, built around a header band across
the top of the frame, square-cornered buttons at 120x36, tick-marked bars
divided into 12 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 backdrop is where an art style has the most room to show itself, so it is
drawn differently in each: dithered bands, a triangulated mosaic, hatched
paper, an isometric grid, a hard-edged horizon. It ships at 640x360 and
exports to 2560x1440 at 4x, which covers 1080p with the aspect held, so it
stretches to any resolution with a single cover fit. The pattern tile closes
every motif inside its own bounds, so tiling shows no seam.

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 Mint family, which
means this kit and the Mint panel kit line up without either being resized. A
good fit for minimal and mobile interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Use the backdrop with a cover fit rather than stretch — the 16:9 aspect is
    deliberate and distorting it is visible immediately on a gradient.
  - Tile the pattern behind lists and inventory grids at 1x for a fine texture
    or 2x for a coarse one; it is seamless in both directions.
  - Draw the scrim between the game and a modal at full screen. It is the
    style palette rather than flat black, so it does not grey out a coloured
    game.

License: CC0-1.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/mint-backdrops
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
