--- title: "Bubble UI skin" package: "@phaser-ae/ui-skin-bubble" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-2 released: 2026-10-18 updated: 2026-10-21 description: "Buttons lit like glossy spheres, with a dome highlight, a bright inner ring and a soft lip, styling every ui widget and made above all for round icon buttons." url: https://phaser.io/packs/ui-skin-bubble site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Bubble UI skin Buttons lit like glossy spheres: a dome highlight, a bright inner ring and a three-stop face, for round buttons above all. The bubble look styles every widget in a game from one colour. ## What it does Set `game.ui.theme = 'bubble'` 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's face runs through three stops, from a light top through its colour to a deeper base, with a dome of light across its upper half, glints, a dark outline with a bright ring just inside it, and a lip. Its corners are a pill by default, so a square icon button becomes a sphere. It is style data, not images, and one button style fits every height. ## Features - **The sphere** — a `dome` gloss, glints, a three-stop face and an inner ring, lit from above. - **Round by default** — pill corners, so icon buttons are circles and captioned buttons are capsules. - **Baloo 2 captions** — white, stroked and extruded in the button's own ink. - **A button per colour** — `default`, `good`, `warn`, `bad`, `flat` and ten named colours, with a matching speech box. ## Good for - **HUDs of round icon buttons** — settings, sound, shop and pause along a screen edge. - **Soft, toy-like menus**, every button lit like a ball. - **Casual mobile games** that want glossy, rounded buttons throughout. - **Result screens of big round choices** — retry, home and next as large icon spheres. ## Make it yours The options are `color` (orange by default), `surface` for the windows (a violet), `accent`, `radius` (`'pill'`), `depth` (5), `roles`, extra `colors` and `designHeight`; the material has no trim. Keep orange marbles on violet windows for a toy-box game, or give the buttons 16 px corners so captioned buttons become lit, rounded tiles while the round icon buttons stay spheres. ## A quick look ```ts // manifest: … typography, ui, ui-skins, ui-skin-bubble game.ui.theme = 'bubble'; 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: 'bubble', color: 'pink', name: 'pink-bubble' }); // another colour, live ``` ## Works with - `ui-skins` — required; the generator and `game.skins`, over `ui` and `typography`. - `ui-skin-glossy` — glossy pills with an inset highlight, for captioned buttons first. - `ui-skin-candy` — pills with a white rim and a passing shine. ## Good to know - The options recolour and reshape the look but do not change it; for another, compose another skin. - Baloo 2 comes from the CDN when the skin is first chosen, and covers Latin, Greek and Cyrillic. - The caption stroke and extrusion redraw the text: fine on buttons, wasteful on a label rewritten every frame. ## Changes ### 3.0.0-2 (2026-10-21) - Fixed: the skin's font, Baloo 2, loads a re-baked copy with fewer specks at sharp corners and where strokes cross, which showed in large titles and buttons. --- ## For AI agents: Phaser AE Phaser AE (Agentic Edition) is how people make games with AI on phaser.io. 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