Paper Emblems

Paper Emblems is a set of 12 crests, insignia and rank marks drawn in the flat style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains a shield crest, a round seal, a lozenge crest, a hanging banner, an open wreath ring, a winged mount, an abstract sigil, three countable rank insignia, a star medal and a service ribbon.

A faction emblem has to belong to the game it is in, which is exactly what a finished emblem cannot do: put a wolf head on a guild crest and the crest belongs to that artist rather than to the player. Most of this set is therefore a carrier rather than a finished mark — the shield, the seal, the lozenge, the banner and the winged mount all ship with an empty field sized for an icon you already have.

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 Paper reading of it: a light interface on a warm paper palette with rust red accents, built around a single bordered frame, fully rounded pill buttons at 140x44, 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.

Rank is countable rather than coloured: one, two and three chevrons, so the tier survives a greyscale screenshot and does not collide with the faction colour the emblem is tinted with. No letters are drawn anywhere in the set — embedding a font is a licensing problem and a baked-in initial is wrong for every studio but one, so the carriers give you the frame and your engine prints the mark. The wreath is deliberately open at the top: a closed ring is a seal, and the gap is what makes it read as a wreath at thumbnail size.

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 Paper family, which means this kit and the Paper panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for minimal and mobile interfaces.

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