Aqua Navigation Kit

Aqua Navigation Kit is a set of 15 navigation and input components drawn in the cartoon style, where a heavy clean outline wraps a glossy face with a single sparkle. 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 gloss is a hard-edged split at 44% of the height, not a smooth gradient: a soft fade reads as glass, a hard split reads as drawn. The offset drop shadow is solid rather than blurred for the same reason.

Inside that style this is the Aqua reading of it: a dark interface on a deep teal palette with ice blue accents, built around a single bordered frame, square-cornered buttons at 128x40, glossy bars divided into 10 segments, and outlined 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 Aqua family, which means this kit and the Aqua panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for anime and cartoon games.

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