Aetherlab Party UI

Aetherlab Party UI is a set of 13 party and roster widgets drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. It contains six party member card states, an empty, an occupied and a locked roster slot, a three-rank formation grid, a turn order strip, a party invite row and a roster swap arrow pair.

A HUD draws one character. A party screen draws four at once, and that is a different problem: with four cards side by side, whose turn it is, who is leading and who is down all have to be readable in the same glance, while the colour that would normally carry that is already spoken for by the characters themselves.

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 party state is a mark in a different place on the card, so two states can be true at once without either being lost: leader is a corner wedge at top left, active turn is a bar down the left edge, ready is a wedge at bottom right, targeted is a bracket around the whole card and downed is a hatch across it. None of them touches the portrait well, because the portrait belongs to your art rather than to the kit. The formation grid marks its front rank with the accent so a placement screen reads without a caption.

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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