Nightcity HUD Frames

Nightcity HUD Frames is a set of 10 heads-up display frames drawn in the cyberpunk style, where every frame has its own asymmetric outline — a notch on one corner, a rail down one edge. It contains a minimap frame with a north marker, a character portrait frame, a compass strip, three crosshair reticles, an objective waypoint marker and a quest tracker plate.

These are the pieces that stay on screen the whole time a game is being played, which makes them the hardest to get right: every one of them has to be readable over arbitrary game art without covering the middle of the screen.

The silhouette is composed rather than scaled: each of the four corners and four edges takes its own treatment, so no two frames in the set share an outline. The neon glow is a stack of strokes at falling opacity, not a blur filter — a filter is applied differently by some SVG rasterisers and turns the halo into a smear at 4x.

Inside that style this is the Nightcity reading of it: a dark interface on a midnight blue palette with hot magenta accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 176x44, hollow-cored bars divided into 16 segments, and two-tone icons on a 32px 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.

The quest plate marks a completed objective with a filled box and a struck-through line rather than by dimming it, so the tracker stays legible against a bright sky. The compass ticks alternate major and minor so a heading can be read at a glance rather than counted.

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 Nightcity family, which means this kit and the Nightcity panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for cyberpunk, sci-fi and near-future interfaces.

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