--- title: "Cartoon UI skin" package: "@phaser-ae/ui-skin-cartoon" tier: Free version: 3.0.0-3 released: 2026-10-18 updated: 2026-10-21 description: "Comic-book menus for every ui widget, with a thick ink outline, a hard offset shadow the button jumps onto when pressed, Bangers lettering and cream windows." url: https://phaser.io/packs/ui-skin-cartoon site: Phaser - https://phaser.io --- # Cartoon UI skin A thick ink outline, a hard offset shadow the button jumps onto when pressed, and comic lettering: the cartoon look for every widget in a game, on cream windows outlined in the same ink. ## What it does Set `game.ui.theme = 'cartoon'` and every widget the `ui` pack draws wears it. A button is a flat face of colour with a faint band of gloss, a 4 px ink outline and a hard shadow offset down and to the right. Under the pointer it lifts a pixel and its shadow grows; pressed, it jumps down onto its shadow. There is no lip by default: the shadow does that job. Windows are cream and panels white, outlined in ink with hard shadows of their own, and the labels, list rows, checkboxes and fields inside them are inked too. The round icon button is a rounded square here, to match. It is style data, not images, and one button style fits every height. ## Features - **Ink outlines** — every button, window, panel, box and field in one dark ink. - **The comic press** — a hard offset shadow, a lift on hover and a jump onto the shadow when pressed. - **Bangers lettering** — white captions with a thick ink stroke, spaced a little apart. - **Cream windows** — light cards with dark text and hard shadows. - **A button per colour** — `default`, `good`, `warn`, `bad`, `flat` and ten named colours, with a matching speech box. ## Good for - **Comic-book games**, with comic lettering and inked panels. - **Pop-art styles**, with flat colour and heavy outlines. - **Brawlers**, with loud buttons that jump when pressed. - **Games with ink-outlined art**, so the menus match the sprites. ## Make it yours The options are `color` (yellow by default), `accent` for title bars, slider fills, knobs, dots and selected rows, `radius` (14, or `'pill'`), `depth` (0), `roles`, extra `colors` and `designHeight`; the material has no trim. Keep yellow comic buttons for a comic brawler, or make pink pills with a `mint` colour added for a lighter pop-art game. Set `depth` above 0 to give the buttons a lip as well as their shadow. ## A quick look ```ts // manifest: … typography, ui, ui-skins, ui-skin-cartoon game.ui.theme = 'cartoon'; 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: 'cartoon', color: 'pink', name: 'pink-cartoon' }); // another colour, live ``` ## Works with - `ui-skins` — required; the generator and `game.skins`, over `ui` and `typography`. - `ui-skin-candystripe` — cream windows too, in a striped frame instead of ink. - `ui-skin-block` — flat colour without the ink. ## Good to know - The windows, panels, slider tracks and boxes are always cream and white in ink; the colour options change the buttons, title bars and accents. - The options recolour and reshape the look but do not change it; for another, compose another skin. - Bangers 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 ### 3.0.0-3 (2026-10-21) - Fixed: the skin's font, Bangers, 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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