Runeforge HUD Frames

Runeforge HUD Frames is a set of 10 heads-up display frames drawn in the magitech style, where pointed corners and a circuit trace carry arcane colour — fantasy with wiring under it. 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 pointed corners come from the shape vocabulary rather than from a fantasy frame, and that is deliberate: this style is the tech half of magitech, not the carved half. Gradients and outlined compositions alternate through the set so a spell panel and an instrument panel can share one screen.

Inside that style this is the Runeforge reading of it: a dark interface on a arcane violet palette with spell mint accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 184x52, hollow-cored bars divided into 9 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 Runeforge family, which means this kit and the Runeforge panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for magitech, alchemy and arcane-science interfaces.

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