Aqua HUD Bars — health, mana and stamina

Bars with the same hard gloss split as the panels, on the shared 160x24 base so they drop into a Slate screen without being resized. The split sits above the fill rather than across it: a highlight drawn over a coloured fill turns a red bar pink and a blue bar grey, which is the one thing a status bar cannot afford.

The frame is a nine-slice with 8 px end caps, so it stretches to any width without the ends deforming — a full-width boss bar and a 40 px enemy nameplate bar use the same file.

The fills are separate sprites rather than baked into the frame, which is the part that matters in practice: you scale the fill's width from zero to full and the frame never moves. Each fill splits at the halfway line with a hard edge rather than a gradient, which is what reads as glass without costing a single soft pixel at 1x.

There are three colours, one per resource: health, mana and stamina. They are spaced apart in brightness as well as hue, which is the part that survives a greyscale screenshot and the most common forms of colour blindness. A set tuned to identical lightness looks balanced in a swatch row and collapses into one grey block on screen.

The segmented variant adds 9 notch lines over the same frame, for games that count discrete pips — hearts, charges, ammo — rather than a continuous percentage. It is a separate file rather than an overlay, so you can drop it in without changing your bar widget. Everything is included as editable SVG and as flat transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

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