Aetherlab Map Markers

Aetherlab Map Markers is a set of 12 map markers and world indicators drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains five map pins — plain, quest, shop, danger and home, waypoint chevrons, a player facing arrow, a route node and a compass tick, an objective ring, ping rings and an area of effect.

Interface kits cover the edges of the screen. These sit in the middle of it, on top of the game, where the kit has no idea what is underneath — grass, snow, night. A marker that relies on a background to read against will disappear over half of your levels.

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.

Every marker carries its own outline and a single-colour body, so the silhouette does the work rather than the fill. The anchor is named in each sprite title and it is not the centre: a pin points at its target with the tip, so its anchor is bottom centre, while a ring and a facing arrow anchor at the middle. Placing a pin by its centre puts it half a pin above whatever it was meant to mark. The area and objective rings are dashed rather than solid because they describe a region rather than an edge — a solid ring reads as a wall.

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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