Paper Modals

Paper Modals is a set of 15 modal dialogs and system notices drawn in the flat style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains three modal dialogs at rising severity, three system plates and three system banners, a three-button footer row, a close button, a layered backdrop scrim and a plain, a focused and an error input field.

A modal is not a panel: it stops the game, waits for an answer, and sometimes the answer cannot be undone. The usual way to say that is a red border, which collides with the health colour already on screen and disappears the moment a developer retints the kit to their own palette.

Depth comes only from a layered soft shadow — three stacked passes rather than a blur filter, because some SVG rasterisers scale a blur wrongly and the 4x PNG comes out as a smear. Everything else is one solid colour.

Inside that style this is the Paper reading of it: a light interface on a warm paper palette with rust red accents, built around a single bordered frame, fully rounded pill buttons at 140x44, banded bars divided into 10 segments, and outlined 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.

Severity is carried by the thickness of the strip along the top edge rather than by its hue, three pixels for a notice, six for a warning and ten for something destructive, so it survives any tint and any greyscale screenshot. The button positions are fixed and deliberate: cancel sits left and raised, the committing action sits right and recessed. That ordering becomes muscle memory across a game, and a kit that varies it is how a player deletes a save by reflex. The scrim is four stacked steps rather than one even wash, because a single black sheet over the whole screen kills the art it is dimming.

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 Paper family, which means this kit and the Paper panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for minimal and mobile interfaces.

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