Dusk Input Prompts

Dusk Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the pixel art style, where every corner is a staircase of whole pixels and nothing is anti-aliased. 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.

The outline steps in 4px units and shading is a Bayer dither rather than a gradient, so the set survives being scaled by an integer factor — which is the only way pixel art can be scaled without turning to mush.

Inside that style this is the Dusk reading of it: a dark interface on a night-violet palette with amber accents, built around a header band across the top of the frame, square-cornered buttons at 96x32, tick-marked bars divided into 6 segments, and solid icons on a 16px 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 Dusk family, which means this kit and the Dusk panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for pixel-art games.

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