Aetherlab Card Frames

Aetherlab Card Frames is a set of 11 card, currency and notification components drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains four rarity card frames, three currency counters, a notification badge and three toast banners.

Rarity is almost always encoded as a border colour, which fails twice: it disappears in greyscale, and it competes with the item art, which is itself coloured. This set encodes rarity as structure instead.

The pointed corners come from the shape vocabulary rather than from a fantasy frame, and that is deliberate: this style is the tech half of magitech, not the carved half. Gradients and outlined compositions alternate through the set so a spell panel and an instrument panel can share one screen.

Inside that style this is the Aetherlab reading of it: a dark interface on a lab navy palette with aether cyan accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 144x36, hollow-cored bars divided into 22 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.

Each tier adds a countable feature — common has none, rare adds two corner brackets, epic adds an inner rule and four brackets, legendary adds a crown band. You can tell them apart at thumbnail size, in a screenshot, and with the colour removed. The toast banners keep colour to a 6px edge stripe so the message text sits at the same contrast in all three tones.

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 Aetherlab family, which means this kit and the Aetherlab panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for magitech, alchemy and arcane-science interfaces.

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