glyphs

The drawn art of First Light: Henter of the Glew, as SVG markup: the crest the title card carries, the two rail instruments the HUD reads down its left edge, the Henter and the hoggy the how-to card teaches with, the stamp an end card presses, and the small marks a line of text needs beside it.

local G = require("game.ui.glyphs")
G.crest                                  -- the summit cairn against first light
G.lantern(24, 75, Core.QUOTA)            -- the phial, filled, notched at the tiers
G.dawnRail(0.4, 0.15)                    -- the light-line, and where the Henter stands
G.stamp("gold")                          -- the mark an end card presses

crest, henter, hoggy, mote and rule are constant strings. The three that draw a value — lantern, dawnRail, stamp — build from a template and memoise on the value they draw, so a rail whose reading has not changed hands back the same string and its raster stays cached instead of being redrawn every frame.

The dawn rail is the hill seen edge-on: the summit at the top, the foot at the bottom, the light-line walking down between them, and the Henter's own place marked under it — so the gauge answers the question the clock alone cannot.

Consumed by game.ui.hud and game.ui.cards.