Greenscreen HUD Bars — health, mana and stamina

Bars at 200x20 with eighteen divisions drawn as gaps in the fill. A character-cell terminal could only draw a meter out of repeated glyphs, and this is what that looked like.

The frame is a nine-slice with 4 px end caps, so it stretches to any width without the ends deforming — a full-width boss bar and a 40 px enemy nameplate bar use the same file.

The fills are separate sprites rather than baked into the frame, which is the part that matters in practice: you scale the fill's width from zero to full and the frame never moves. Each fill is a hollow shell with a bright core running through it, so the socket colour shows between the edges and the bar reads as contained energy rather than paint.

There are three colours, one per resource: health, mana and stamina. They are spaced apart in brightness as well as hue, which is the part that survives a greyscale screenshot and the most common forms of colour blindness. A set tuned to identical lightness looks balanced in a swatch row and collapses into one grey block on screen.

The segmented variant adds 17 notch lines over the same frame, for games that count discrete pips — hearts, charges, ammo — rather than a continuous percentage. It is a separate file rather than an overlay, so you can drop it in without changing your bar widget. Everything is included as editable SVG and as flat transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x.

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