---
title: "Block UI skin"
package: "@phaser-ae/ui-skin-block"
tier: Free
version: 3.0.0-2
released: 2026-10-18
updated: 2026-10-21
description: "The modern flat 3D button for every ui widget, a clean colour face on a solid lip it presses into, with no outline and no gloss."
url: https://phaser.io/packs/ui-skin-block
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
---

# Block UI skin

Flat colour on a solid lip, no outline and no gloss: the modern flat 3D button, for every widget in a game. It presses
down like a key and reads on any colour.

## What it does

Set `game.ui.theme = 'block'` and every widget the `ui` pack draws wears it: buttons in every colour, round icon
buttons, windows and title bars, sliders, toggles, progress bars, checkboxes, radios, text fields and lists. A button
is a clean face with a slight gradient, on a darker lip in its own hue, under a caption with a hard shadow in the
lip's colour. The caption is white, or the colour's dark ink on a pale face, so a pastel button stays legible. It is
style data, not images, and one button style fits every height.

## Features

- **The flat 3D key** — a 7 px lip at the 64 px design height and 10 px corners, with no outline and no gloss.
- **Readable on any colour** — white captions on strong colours, dark ones on pale colours.
- **Passion One captions** — a bold display face with a hard drop shadow.
- **A button per colour** — `default`, `good`, `warn`, `bad`, `flat` and ten named colours, with a matching speech box.

## Good for

- **Hyper-casual games**, where the interface should get out of the way.
- **Modern minimal puzzle games** with flat art.
- **Pastel palettes**, whose pale buttons need dark captions to read.
- **Clean settings and menu screens** in any game that wants depth without decoration.

## Make it yours

The options are `color` (teal by default), `surface` for the windows (a slate blue), `accent`, `radius` (10, or
`'pill'`), `depth` (7), `roles`, extra `colors` and `designHeight`; the material has no trim. Keep teal keys on slate
windows for a puzzle game, or make pink pills with a `mint` colour added; with `depth: 0` the buttons become fully
flat and nudge down when pressed.

## A quick look

```ts
// manifest: … typography, ui, ui-skins, ui-skin-block
game.ui.theme = 'block';
game.ui.button({ text: 'PLAY', style: 'good', icon: 'play', onClick: start });   // sized to its caption and icon
game.ui.button({ h: 72, icon: 'settings', style: 'icon' });                     // the round icon button
game.skins.use({ material: 'block', color: 'pink', name: 'pink-block' });     // another colour, live
```

## Works with

- `ui-skins` — required; the generator and `game.skins`, over `ui` and `typography`.
- `ui-skin-jelly` and `ui-skin-glossy` — when the buttons should shine and carry an outline.
- `ui-skin-cartoon` — flat colour too, but inked and comic.

## Good to know

- The options recolour and reshape the look but do not change it; for another, compose another skin.
- Passion One comes from the CDN when the skin is first chosen, and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic.
- Stroked labels and headings redraw the text behind itself: fine for titles, wasteful on a label rewritten every
  frame.

## Changes

### 3.0.0-2 (2026-10-21)

- Fixed: the skin's font, Passion One, loads a re-baked copy with fewer specks at sharp corners and where
  strokes cross, which showed in large titles and buttons.

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