Carbon Crafting UI

Carbon Crafting UI is a set of 13 crafting and recipe widgets drawn in the realistic style, where a five-stop specular gradient runs down a brushed metal face with rivets at the corners. It contains three ingredient slot states, an oversized result slot, a combine and a salvage arrow, an ingredient join mark, three quality meters, a known and an undiscovered recipe row and a stepped crafting progress bar.

Crafting is the one screen where a slot has to say something an inventory slot never says: not what is in it, but whether you have enough of it. Have, missing and partly-have are three states, and a set that ships one slot sprite forces the engine to answer that question in text under every slot.

The brush texture is a 3px line pattern rather than real noise: noise triples the PNG weight for a texture nobody can see at 1x. The shadow is layered rather than blurred so it holds up at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Carbon reading of it: a dark interface on a near black palette with warning amber accents, built around four corner brackets in place of a closed border, chamfered buttons at 152x44, hollow-cored bars divided into 14 segments, and two-tone 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 ingredient slot ships in all three states with the difference carried in the border rather than in a fill: a satisfied slot is closed, a missing one is dashed, a partial one is closed on the bottom half only. That reads at 56 pixels and it reads without colour. The combine and salvage arrows are separate files rather than one arrow rotated, because both sit on the same screen and a mirrored arrow throws its shading to the wrong side. The result slot is drawn a third larger than the ingredient slot on purpose: the output of a recipe is not one more ingredient and should not sit in the same box.

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 Carbon family, which means this kit and the Carbon panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for realistic and simulation interfaces.

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