Redline Input Prompts
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16 cyberpunk input prompt sprites for dark interfaces — blood black with
warning amber accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Redline Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the
cyberpunk style, where every frame has its own asymmetric outline — a notch on
one corner, a rail down one edge. It contains square, wide and pressed
keycaps, four arrow keys, four gamepad face buttons, a shoulder button and a
trigger and three mouse button prompts.

A game that supports both a keyboard and a gamepad has to show both, at
matching sizes, in the same sentence — and almost nobody ships that art, so it
gets drawn by hand at the end of a project when there is no time for it.

The silhouette is composed rather than scaled: each of the four corners and
four edges takes its own treatment, so no two frames in the set share an
outline. The neon glow is a stack of strokes at falling opacity, not a blur
filter — a filter is applied differently by some SVG rasterisers and turns the
halo into a smear at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Redline reading of it: a dark interface on a
blood black palette with warning amber accents, built around a single bordered
frame, chamfered buttons at 140x36, hollow-cored bars divided into 10
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.

No letters are drawn anywhere in this set. Embedding a typeface means
embedding its licence, and a baked-in "E" is wrong in every remapped control
scheme and every language; the shapes are here and your engine draws the glyph
on top with the font it already has.

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 Redline family,
which means this kit and the Redline panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for cyberpunk, sci-fi and near-future interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Draw the key label with your own font centred on the cap face, which sits
    slightly above centre — the offset is what makes the cap look pressable.
  - Swap the pressed keycap in on key-down for a one-frame press effect rather
    than scaling the sprite, which breaks the outline weight.
  - Keep gamepad and keyboard prompts at the same optical height in a line of
    text; the 44px pad button and 40px keycap are sized to match already.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/redline-input-prompts
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