Sumi Card Frames

Sumi Card Frames is a set of 11 card, currency and notification components drawn in the cel-shaded style, where a thick ink outline wraps two flat tones split by a hard diagonal terminator. It contains four rarity card frames, three currency counters, a notification badge and three toast banners.

Rarity is almost always encoded as a border colour, which fails twice: it disappears in greyscale, and it competes with the item art, which is itself coloured. This set encodes rarity as structure instead.

The shadow is a single hard-edged shape with no falloff — the defining property of cel shading, and the thing a gradient can never imitate. The outline uses the darkest tone in the palette rather than the border tone, or it reads as a thick grey frame instead of ink.

Inside that style this is the Sumi reading of it: a dark interface on a charcoal wash palette with seal red accents, built around two concentric frames, tab-shaped buttons at 120x48, glossy bars divided into 9 segments, and outlined 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.

Each tier adds a countable feature — common has none, rare adds two corner brackets, epic adds an inner rule and four brackets, legendary adds a crown band. You can tell them apart at thumbnail size, in a screenshot, and with the colour removed. The toast banners keep colour to a 6px edge stripe so the message text sits at the same contrast in all three tones.

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 Sumi family, which means this kit and the Sumi panel kit line up without either being resized. A good fit for cel-shaded and toon-rendered games.

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