Basalt Input Prompts

Basalt Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the low-poly style, where the silhouette is an angular polygon and the face is split into flat triangles. It contains square, wide and pressed keycaps, four arrow keys, four gamepad face buttons, a shoulder button and a trigger and three mouse button prompts.

A game that supports both a keyboard and a gamepad has to show both, at matching sizes, in the same sentence — and almost nobody ships that art, so it gets drawn by hand at the end of a project when there is no time for it.

Four triangles meet off-centre and each carries its own flat tone, which is exactly how a faceted mesh shades. There are no curves anywhere in the kit and no gradient on any facet.

Inside that style this is the Basalt reading of it: a dark interface on a ash grey palette with magma orange accents, built around a single bordered frame, square-cornered buttons at 120x44, banded bars divided into 7 segments, and solid 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.

No letters are drawn anywhere in this set. Embedding a typeface means embedding its licence, and a baked-in "E" is wrong in every remapped control scheme and every language; the shapes are here and your engine draws the glyph on top with the font it already has.

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 Basalt family, which means this kit and the Basalt panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for low-poly games.

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