Amberterm Navigation Kit

Amberterm Navigation Kit is a set of 15 navigation and input components drawn in the terminal style, where one hue at six levels and nothing else — a phosphor tube has no second colour. 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 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 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 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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