Mint Loading
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20 flat loading and waiting indicators for dark interfaces — blue-grey with
mint green accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Mint Loading is a set of 20 loading and waiting indicators drawn in the flat
style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains an
eight-frame spinner, a three-frame dot cycle, a loading bar frame with four
fill steps, an indeterminate striped bar, two skeleton text lines and a
skeleton image block.

The loading screen is the screen a player looks at longest and the one nobody
makes art for. It is also the one place where a bar means something different
from everywhere else: a resource bar shows a value, a loading bar shows a
process, and using the same sprite for both is how a health bar ends up on a
loading screen.

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 spinner ships as eight frames rather than one sprite to rotate. Rotation
exists in every engine, but the number of frames does not — and in a pixel
style a spinner that rotates smoothly is wrong, it should step. An eight-frame
atlas is correct in both cases and works everywhere. The skeleton placeholders
are here for the same reason the spinner is: an empty screen while content
loads reads as broken, and a grey block that has the shape of the thing
arriving reads as waiting.

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

  - Play the spinner frames in order at about 12 frames per second; slower
    reads as stuck and faster reads as noise.
  - Use the indeterminate bar when you cannot report a percentage, and switch
    to the stepped fills the moment you can — a fake percentage is worse than
    none.
  - Lay the skeleton line and block in the same positions as the real content
    so nothing jumps when it arrives.
  - Keep the loading bar in the accent colour rather than a resource colour; a
    loading bar that looks like a health bar is read as one.

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