Reliquary Backdrops
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7 stylised background and overlay pieces for dark interfaces — deep indigo
with pale silver accents. SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Reliquary Backdrops is a set of 7 background and overlay pieces drawn in the
stylised style, where the frame is carved, with finials pushing out past the
corners and a gem set into each one. 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.

The ornament is part of the silhouette rather than drawn on top of it, so the
frame is recognisable at thumbnail size. The face carries a three-stop
vertical gradient — the closest a flat kit gets to a painted bevel.

Inside that style this is the Reliquary reading of it: a dark interface on a
deep indigo palette with pale silver accents, built around a header band
across the top of the frame, chamfered buttons at 128x56, hollow-cored bars
divided into 12 segments, and two-tone icons on a 24px 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 Reliquary family,
which means this kit and the Reliquary panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for fantasy and RPG 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: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/ui/reliquary-backdrops
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
