Aetherlab Navigation Kit

Aetherlab Navigation Kit is a set of 15 navigation and input components drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains active and inactive tabs, a scrollbar track, thumb and two arrows, a dropdown in closed and open states with its menu, idle and focused text fields and round close, back, plus and minus buttons.

Most free UI kits stop at panels and buttons, which means the first settings screen you build is the moment you start drawing your own art. This is the rest of it: the parts a menu actually needs before it works.

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 focused text field widens its outline instead of only changing colour, because a focus ring that is only a hue disappears in high-contrast mode and takes keyboard navigation with it. The active tab merges into the surface below it rather than just brightening, which is what makes it read as connected.

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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