Coinop Backdrops

Coinop Backdrops is a set of 7 background and overlay pieces drawn in the arcade style, where the colour is the body rather than the border — saturated slabs with pointed ends. It contains a full-screen menu backdrop, a seamless pattern tile, a modal dimming overlay, a title banner, a section divider and a loading bar track and fill.

This is the piece most free UI kits leave out entirely. A kit that gives you panels and buttons but nothing to put them on stops being useful at the first screen you build, and the backdrop is the one thing you cannot fake with a flat colour without the whole menu looking unfinished.

Each slab is filled with a two-stop gradient running along its long axis, and the marks are drawn dark on top of the colour rather than bright on top of black. The pointed ends are part of the silhouette, so they survive being scaled instead of being an outline effect.

Inside that style this is the Coinop reading of it: a dark interface on a plum black palette with coin gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 200x56, hollow-cored bars divided into 5 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 backdrop is where an art style has the most room to show itself, so it is drawn differently in each: dithered bands, a triangulated mosaic, hatched paper, an isometric grid, a hard-edged horizon. It ships at 640x360 and exports to 2560x1440 at 4x, which covers 1080p with the aspect held, so it stretches to any resolution with a single cover fit. The pattern tile closes every motif inside its own bounds, so tiling shows no seam.

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 Coinop family, which means this kit and the Coinop panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for racing, arcade and score-driven interfaces.

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