Voidrunner Status Effects

Voidrunner Status Effects is a set of 12 status effect frames and duration indicators 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 buff, debuff and neutral frames, permanent and expiring frames, five duration ring steps, a duration bar and a stack count badge.

A buff icon sits on screen for three seconds and the player never looks straight at it — they catch it in the corner of their eye. That rules out the usual solution: a green border for good and a red one for bad collapses in colourblind modes, and it collides with whatever colours the game itself is already using on that HUD.

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 Voidrunner reading of it: a dark interface on a deep violet palette with toxic mint accents, built around a single bordered frame, chamfered buttons at 168x40, hollow-cored bars divided into 14 segments, and two-tone 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.

Buff and debuff are separated by shape instead. The buff frame pushes its corners outward and the debuff frame folds them inward: one grows, the other eats. Both survive a greyscale screenshot. Duration is a ring around the icon rather than a bar beneath it, because a bar pushes every icon down a few pixels and breaks the row. The rings ship as five steps rather than one sprite because most engines cannot clip an SVG at runtime — a filling ring is either a shader or a step atlas, and the atlas works everywhere. The frames ship empty: your own effect icon goes in the middle.

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

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