Carbon Quest Log

Carbon Quest Log is a set of 13 quest log and objective 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 four journal entry states, three objective row states, a reward preview strip, an active and an idle journal tab and three countable difficulty marks.

A quest log is a list where every row means something different from its neighbour, and the difference is almost always drawn as a colour: green for done, grey for failed, gold for tracked. Three greys and a gold later the log reads as a gradient rather than as a list, and a player scanning it for the one quest they are actually on has to read every line.

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.

All four states carry their mark in the same left-hand column, which is what lets a long log be scanned down one line rather than read: active takes a bar down the whole edge, tracked a wedge, done a tick and failed a cross. Done and failed therefore differ from each other by mark rather than by hue, and the column stays legible at any row height. The objective rows are a size down from the entries and share their left margin, which is what makes a nested objective read as belonging to the quest above it rather than as another quest.

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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