Dusk Status Effects

Dusk Status Effects is a set of 12 status effect frames and duration indicators drawn in the pixel art style, where every corner is a staircase of whole pixels and nothing is anti-aliased. It contains buff, debuff and neutral frames, permanent and expiring frames, five duration ring steps, a duration bar and a stack count badge.

A buff icon sits on screen for three seconds and the player never looks straight at it — they catch it in the corner of their eye. That rules out the usual solution: a green border for good and a red one for bad collapses in colourblind modes, and it collides with whatever colours the game itself is already using on that HUD.

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.

Buff and debuff are separated by shape instead. The buff frame pushes its corners outward and the debuff frame folds them inward: one grows, the other eats. Both survive a greyscale screenshot. Duration is a ring around the icon rather than a bar beneath it, because a bar pushes every icon down a few pixels and breaks the row. The rings ship as five steps rather than one sprite because most engines cannot clip an SVG at runtime — a filling ring is either a shader or a step atlas, and the atlas works everywhere. The frames ship empty: your own effect icon goes in the middle.

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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