Aqua Party UI

Aqua Party UI is a set of 13 party and roster widgets drawn in the cartoon style, where a heavy clean outline wraps a glossy face with a single sparkle. 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 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.

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 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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