Slate Tileset
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58 realistic tiles for dark interfaces — neutral slate with warm gold accents.
SVG plus transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

Slate Tileset is a set of 58 tiles drawn in the realistic style, where a
five-stop specular gradient runs down a brushed metal face with rivets at the
corners. It contains a 47-mask autotile set, ground and wall variations, edge
and corner pieces, grid-aligned props and an assembled sheet.

A tileset is only a tileset if the tiles actually connect. Most free sets are
a folder of squares that look related and line up almost everywhere, and the
almost is what costs an afternoon: one edge mask is off by a pixel and the
seam shows on every wall in the level.

The brush texture is a 3px line pattern rather than real noise: noise triples
the PNG weight for a texture nobody can see at 1x. The shadow is layered
rather than blurred so it holds up at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Slate reading of it: a dark interface on a
neutral slate palette with warm gold accents, built around a single bordered
frame, square-cornered buttons at 128x40, banded bars divided into 10
segments, and outlined 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 autotile masks are generated from the same edge geometry rather than drawn
one at a time, so a tile and its neighbour share the exact border by
construction rather than by care. Ground variations are drawn to be
interchangeable at any position, which is what stops a large floor reading as
a repeating pattern.

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 Slate family,
which means this kit and the Slate panel kit line up without either being
resized. A good fit for realistic and simulation interfaces.

HOW TO USE

  - Import the sheet with the tile size the specs box names and no padding or
    extrusion; the tiles are drawn to the grid edge on purpose so adjacent
    tiles meet exactly.
  - Map the autotile masks by their bitmask number — the file names are the
    mask value, so a standard blob autotile setup wires up without a lookup
    table.
  - Scale by whole numbers only. A tileset at 1.5x lands tile edges on half
    pixels and produces a seam that is not in the art.

License: CC-BY-4.0 — see LICENSE.txt
Page: https://www.colorosse.com/assets/2d/tilesets/slate-tileset
More free assets: https://www.colorosse.com
