Mallwave Status Effects

Mallwave Status Effects is a set of 12 status effect frames and duration indicators drawn in the vaporwave style, where rounded and folded corners carry pink-and-teal slabs over a deep indigo ground. 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.

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.

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 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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