Inkwell Map Markers

Inkwell Map Markers is a set of 12 map markers and world indicators drawn in the cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones split by a hard diagonal terminator. It contains five map pins — plain, quest, shop, danger and home, waypoint chevrons, a player facing arrow, a route node and a compass tick, an objective ring, ping rings and an area of effect.

Interface kits cover the edges of the screen. These sit in the middle of it, on top of the game, where the kit has no idea what is underneath — grass, snow, night. A marker that relies on a background to read against will disappear over half of your levels.

The shadow is a single hard-edged shape with no falloff — the defining property of cel shading, and the thing a gradient can never imitate. The outline uses the darkest tone in the palette rather than the border tone, or it reads as a thick grey frame instead of ink.

Inside that style this is the Inkwell reading of it: a light interface on a flat poster palette with signal red accents, built around a single bordered frame, square-cornered buttons at 152x52, banded bars divided into 5 segments, and solid icons on a 24px 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.

Every marker carries its own outline and a single-colour body, so the silhouette does the work rather than the fill. The anchor is named in each sprite title and it is not the centre: a pin points at its target with the tip, so its anchor is bottom centre, while a ring and a facing arrow anchor at the middle. Placing a pin by its centre puts it half a pin above whatever it was meant to mark. The area and objective rings are dashed rather than solid because they describe a region rather than an edge — a solid ring reads as a wall.

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 Inkwell family, which means this kit and the Inkwell panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for cel-shaded and toon-rendered games.

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