Themes · Regalia · the default
A moodboard for the house style: rounded, comic-clean shapes in the Solar Bold Duotone manner — a soft mass at 32% opacity, a crisp focal shape at full — coloured only from the Hayao palette. Icons, drawings, marks, game assets and UI, all cut from the same cloth.
01 · Palette
Every shape is a single hue shown at two opacities — the left half full, the right half at 32%. That pairing is the whole trick.
Extended · purpose-scoped
Grow the palette by the job, not the mood. A new hue earns its place only by owning one specific thing — and it stays out of the core UI chrome, which the four above keep to themselves.
02 · Icons
24-grid, no outlines. Broad backdrop at 32%, the focal detail at 100%, all of one hue. Hover to feel the lift.
03 · Drawings
Bigger illustrations are just stacked duotone masses — flat, rounded, layered light-to-dark. No gradients, no outlines.
04 · Marks & lockups
One silhouette, flexible dress: gold-on-paper, reversed, knocked into a badge, or mono for a single-colour print.
05 · Game assets
The style is built for play — a friendly cast and a shelf of collectibles that read at 16px or 64px.
06 · Components
Rounded corners, soft coloured shadows, gold reserved for the one action that matters most on screen.
07 · The recipe
Hand this to a person or an agent — it reproduces the look without seeing the corpus.
Pick a single palette colour. Everything in the graphic is that colour — the difference is 100% vs 32% opacity. Never mix two hues inside one icon (the crown’s navy rule is the one sanctioned exception).
The big silhouette is the light layer. The one detail you want the eye to land on — a face, a keyhole, a star point — sits on top at full strength.
Solid fills only. Generous corner radii, thick limbs, no hairline strokes. If it could survive being shrunk to a 16px favicon, it’s bold enough.
Circles over corners, smiles over frowns, a little bounce in the proportions. Comic-clean, never sharp or corporate. Leave air around the subject.
Author on a 24×24 grid so weight stays consistent across the set. Keep it vector — one path family reads crisp from sprite to billboard.
No gradients, no drop-shadows inside the art, no three-plus colours per shape, no thin outlines, no photographic texture. The charm is in the restraint.