Aetherlab Dialogue Kit

Aetherlab Dialogue Kit is a set of 7 dialogue components drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains a speech box with a tail, a speaker name plate, dim and bright continue indicators, idle and selected choice rows and a tooltip panel.

A dialogue box is the single most-read surface in a story game, and it is not the same thing as a window panel: it needs a tail that points at whoever is talking, a name plate that sits on top of it without covering the first line, and a continue indicator with two frames so the engine can blink it.

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.

The selected choice row is marked by an indent and a pointer rather than by a colour change, so the state survives a colourblind mode and a greyscale shader. That matters more here than anywhere else: choosing the wrong dialogue option is a mistake a player cannot undo.

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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