Neon Loading
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20 low-poly loading and waiting indicators for dark interfaces — deep space
blue with cyan accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Neon Loading is a set of 20 loading and waiting indicators drawn in the
low-poly style, where the silhouette is an angular polygon and the face is
split into flat triangles. 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.

Four triangles meet off-centre and each carries its own flat tone, which is
exactly how a faceted mesh shades. There are no curves anywhere in the kit and
no gradient on any facet.

Inside that style this is the Neon reading of it: a dark interface on a deep
space blue palette with cyan accents, built around four corner brackets in
place of a closed border, chamfered buttons at 144x36, hollow-cored bars
divided into 12 segments, and two-tone icons on a 32px 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 Neon family, which
means this kit and the Neon panel kit line up without either being resized. A
good fit for low-poly games.

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: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/neon-loading
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
