Paper Navigation Kit

Paper Navigation Kit is a set of 15 navigation and input components drawn in the flat style, where there are no outlines and no shading at all. It contains active and inactive tabs, a scrollbar track, thumb and two arrows, a dropdown in closed and open states with its menu, idle and focused text fields and round close, back, plus and minus buttons.

Most free UI kits stop at panels and buttons, which means the first settings screen you build is the moment you start drawing your own art. This is the rest of it: the parts a menu actually needs before it works.

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.

The focused text field widens its outline instead of only changing colour, because a focus ring that is only a hue disappears in high-contrast mode and takes keyboard navigation with it. The active tab merges into the surface below it rather than just brightening, which is what makes it read as connected.

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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