Coinop Input Prompts

Coinop Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the arcade style, where the colour is the body rather than the border — saturated slabs with pointed ends. 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.

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.

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 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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