Chromepop Input Prompts

Chromepop Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the Y2K style, where everything is flat and printed — thick straight outlines, solid blocks, no glow anywhere. 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.

No gradient and no halo: the whole set is flat colour with a heavy straight outline, which is what separates the Y2K poster look from the neon one. The silhouettes are composed corner by corner rather than scaled from one rectangle, so a badge and a banner in the same set do not share an outline.

Inside that style this is the Chromepop reading of it: a dark interface on a pure black palette with hot pink accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 160x44, hollow-cored bars divided into 12 segments, and two-tone 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 Chromepop family, which means this kit and the Chromepop panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for retro-futuristic menus and poster-styled interfaces.

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