Amberterm Crafting UI

Amberterm Crafting UI is a set of 13 crafting and recipe widgets drawn in the terminal style, where one hue at six levels and nothing else — a phosphor tube has no second colour. It contains three ingredient slot states, an oversized result slot, a combine and a salvage arrow, an ingredient join mark, three quality meters, a known and an undiscovered recipe row and a stepped crafting progress bar.

Crafting is the one screen where a slot has to say something an inventory slot never says: not what is in it, but whether you have enough of it. Have, missing and partly-have are three states, and a set that ships one slot sprite forces the engine to answer that question in text under every slot.

The whole set is built from a single hue, including the trace and the marks, because a phosphor or amber CRT physically cannot show a second one. The halo is a stack of strokes at falling opacity, which is what the bloom on a real tube looks like and what a blur filter gets wrong at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Amberterm reading of it: a dark interface on a warm black palette with CRT amber accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 128x46, hollow-cored bars divided into 7 segments, and two-tone icons on a 32px 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 ingredient slot ships in all three states with the difference carried in the border rather than in a fill: a satisfied slot is closed, a missing one is dashed, a partial one is closed on the bottom half only. That reads at 56 pixels and it reads without colour. The combine and salvage arrows are separate files rather than one arrow rotated, because both sit on the same screen and a mirrored arrow throws its shading to the wrong side. The result slot is drawn a third larger than the ingredient slot on purpose: the output of a recipe is not one more ingredient and should not sit in the same box.

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 Amberterm family, which means this kit and the Amberterm panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for terminals, consoles and retro-computing interfaces.

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