Candy HUD Frames

Candy HUD Frames is a set of 10 heads-up display frames drawn in the cartoon style, where a heavy clean outline wraps a glossy face with a single sparkle. It contains a minimap frame with a north marker, a character portrait frame, a compass strip, three crosshair reticles, an objective waypoint marker and a quest tracker plate.

These are the pieces that stay on screen the whole time a game is being played, which makes them the hardest to get right: every one of them has to be readable over arbitrary game art without covering the middle of the screen.

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 Candy reading of it: a light interface on a warm cream palette with bubblegum pink accents, built around two concentric frames, fully rounded pill buttons at 168x56, banded bars divided into 6 segments, and solid 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 quest plate marks a completed objective with a filled box and a struck-through line rather than by dimming it, so the tracker stays legible against a bright sky. The compass ticks alternate major and minor so a heading can be read at a glance rather than counted.

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 Candy family, which means this kit and the Candy panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for anime and cartoon games.

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