Mallwave Input Prompts

Mallwave Input Prompts is a set of 16 input prompt sprites drawn in the vaporwave style, where rounded and folded corners carry pink-and-teal slabs over a deep indigo ground. 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.

This is the one frame style that allows a curve; every other one in the catalogue is strictly angular. The gradients run across the long axis in two saturated stops rather than fading to a neutral, because a washed-out vaporwave gradient reads as a mistake rather than as a mood.

Inside that style this is the Mallwave reading of it: a dark interface on a plum haze palette with sunbleached gold accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 132x40, hollow-cored bars divided into 16 segments, and two-tone 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 Mallwave family, which means this kit and the Mallwave panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for synthwave, dusk-set and retro-romantic interfaces.

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