Inkwell Inventory Slots — 64px grid

Inventory slots at 64px on the light ground. The recessed interior is a flat second tone rather than a gradient, which is the whole grammar of cel shading; the rarity tiers add countable corner marks so the tier can still be read with the colour removed.

An inventory grid does not need a panel, it needs a square that tiles: 7 files at 64×64, all with the same outer bounds, so a row of them lines up with no gap arithmetic. Put them 68 px apart and the borders read as a single grid rather than a row of separate boxes.

The states are drawn as structure, not colour. The selected slot gets corner ticks, the locked slot gets diagonal hatching, the hover slot lifts its border a step. This is deliberate: the inventory screen is the noisiest surface in most games, sitting under item art in every hue at once, and a state that is only a border colour is invisible the moment a red sword is sitting in the slot.

The three rarity frames reuse the hits, charge and combo colours from the rest of the family, each with a corner marker as well as a coloured border — so a player sorting by rarity is reading two signals, and neither of them is competing with the item art in the middle of the slot.

Everything is included as editable SVG and as flat transparent PNG at 1x, 2x and 4x. The slot interiors are transparent, so whatever you render behind the grid shows through instead of a baked background colour.

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