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+# Interface icons (high-res)
+
+Generated on 2026-11-07 with `fal-ai/nano-banana-pro` (`resolution: 2K`, one image per sheet,
+`aspect_ratio: 21:9` for the 5-column sheets, `16:9` for the spells). `batch.py` holds the
+prompts: the shared text below followed by the numbered icon descriptions.
+
+```text
+A sheet of game icons for a dark-fantasy dungeon strategy game, arranged in a grid of {cols} columns and {rows} rows, every icon centred in its own equal square cell and filling about 80 percent of it, all icons the same size and in the same style: hand-painted pixel art, chunky clear shapes, crisp edges, a dark near-black outline, rich but slightly muted colours, readable at small size, light from the upper left. The background is a completely flat pure magenta (#FF00FF) everywhere, also between the icons - no frames, no grid lines, no cell borders, no text, no labels, no numbers. The icons, in reading order (left to right, top to bottom): 
+```
+
+## tools (5x2)
+
+- `I_PICK`: a pickaxe for digging
+- `I_HAND`: a clawed green monster hand reaching to grab
+- `I_SELL`: a small pile of gold coins with a curved arrow (selling)
+- `I_FLAG`: a red rally flag on a pole
+- `I_BOLT`: a yellow lightning bolt
+- `I_HEAL`: a glowing green healing cross with sparkles
+- `I_SUMMON`: a glowing violet summoning circle with a small imp silhouette
+- `I_BRIDGE`: a small wooden plank bridge arch
+- `I_WALL`: a block of grey stone wall with an upward arrow
+- `I_STEEL`: a riveted dark steel wall plate
+
+## towers (5x2)
+
+- `I_ARROW`: a small wooden watchtower with an arrow
+- `I_CANNON`: a squat stone tower with a black cannon
+- `I_MAGIC`: a slender dark tower with a glowing purple orb on top
+- `I_RUNE`: a dark stone obelisk with a glowing red rune and bronze bands
+- `I_DRAWBRIDGE`: a raised wooden drawbridge with chains over water
+- `I_RAM`: a battering ram: a tree trunk with an iron cap under a small wooden roof on wheels
+- `I_CATAPULT`: a wooden catapult with a stone in its arm
+- `I_ORDERS`: two crossed swords (attack order)
+- `I_ORDERS+1`: a round shield (guard order)
+- `I_FREEZE`: a glowing pale-blue snowflake (frost spell)
+
+## traps (5x2)
+
+- `I_TRAPS`: a floor trap with sharp metal spikes
+- `I_TRAPS+1`: a floor vent puffing a green poison cloud
+- `I_TRAPS+2`: a floor nozzle shooting a jet of fire
+- `I_TRAPS+3`: a big round rolling boulder
+- `I_TRAPS+4`: a brass alarm bell
+- `I_TRAPS+5`: a glowing red rune mine on the floor
+- `I_TRAPS+6`: a floor trap with a glowing blue frost crystal
+- `I_TRAPS+7`: a wooden door with iron hinges
+- `I_TRAPS+8`: a heavy iron door with rivets
+- `I_TRAPS+9`: a magic door glowing with purple runes
+
+## spells (4x2)
+
+- `I_SPELLS`: a glowing all-seeing eye (seer's eye spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+1`: falling rocks from a cracked ceiling (cave-in spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+2`: a winged boot (haste spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+3`: a fist of grey stone (stoneskin spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+4`: gold coins raining down (gold rain spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+5`: a fading translucent ghostly figure (invisibility spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+6`: a green skull in a sickly cloud (plague spell)
+- `I_SPELLS+7`: cracked shaking ground with rocks jumping (quake spell)
+
+## Processing
+
+`tools/cut_icons.py <sheet>-raw.png <sheet> --grid 2x5` (spells `--grid 2x4`) keys out only nearly
+pure magenta (violet glows stay), crops every icon, centres it in a square and scales it to 64x64
+and 128x128 with hard alpha. The strips go to `assets/textures/icons/`; the game puts them into
+the high-res atlases' icon cells (`HD_ICONS` in `src/gfx.rs`).
diff --git a/art/generated/icons/batch.py b/art/generated/icons/batch.py
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+# The interface icons of the high-res style (2026-11-07): four sheets, each a grid of icons.
+# (sheet name, columns, rows, [(atlas cell constant, description)])
+STYLE = ("A sheet of game icons for a dark-fantasy dungeon strategy game, arranged in a grid of {cols} columns and {rows} rows, every icon "
+         "centred in its own equal square cell and filling about 80 percent of it, all icons the same size and in the same style: "
+         "hand-painted pixel art, chunky clear shapes, crisp edges, a dark near-black outline, rich but slightly muted colours, readable at small size, "
+         "light from the upper left. The background is a completely flat pure magenta (#FF00FF) everywhere, also between the icons - "
+         "no frames, no grid lines, no cell borders, no text, no labels, no numbers. The icons, in reading order (left to right, top to bottom): ")
+SHEETS = [
+ ("tools", 5, 2, [
+  ("I_PICK", "a pickaxe for digging"), ("I_HAND", "a clawed green monster hand reaching to grab"), ("I_SELL", "a small pile of gold coins with a curved arrow (selling)"),
+  ("I_FLAG", "a red rally flag on a pole"), ("I_BOLT", "a yellow lightning bolt"), ("I_HEAL", "a glowing green healing cross with sparkles"),
+  ("I_SUMMON", "a glowing violet summoning circle with a small imp silhouette"), ("I_BRIDGE", "a small wooden plank bridge arch"),
+  ("I_WALL", "a block of grey stone wall with an upward arrow"), ("I_STEEL", "a riveted dark steel wall plate")]),
+ ("towers", 5, 2, [
+  ("I_ARROW", "a small wooden watchtower with an arrow"), ("I_CANNON", "a squat stone tower with a black cannon"), ("I_MAGIC", "a slender dark tower with a glowing purple orb on top"),
+  ("I_RUNE", "a dark stone obelisk with a glowing red rune and bronze bands"), ("I_DRAWBRIDGE", "a raised wooden drawbridge with chains over water"),
+  ("I_RAM", "a battering ram: a tree trunk with an iron cap under a small wooden roof on wheels"), ("I_CATAPULT", "a wooden catapult with a stone in its arm"),
+  ("I_ORDERS", "two crossed swords (attack order)"), ("I_ORDERS+1", "a round shield (guard order)"), ("I_FREEZE", "a glowing pale-blue snowflake (frost spell)")]),
+ ("traps", 5, 2, [
+  ("I_TRAPS", "a floor trap with sharp metal spikes"), ("I_TRAPS+1", "a floor vent puffing a green poison cloud"), ("I_TRAPS+2", "a floor nozzle shooting a jet of fire"),
+  ("I_TRAPS+3", "a big round rolling boulder"), ("I_TRAPS+4", "a brass alarm bell"), ("I_TRAPS+5", "a glowing red rune mine on the floor"),
+  ("I_TRAPS+6", "a floor trap with a glowing blue frost crystal"), ("I_TRAPS+7", "a wooden door with iron hinges"), ("I_TRAPS+8", "a heavy iron door with rivets"),
+  ("I_TRAPS+9", "a magic door glowing with purple runes")]),
+ ("spells", 4, 2, [
+  ("I_SPELLS", "a glowing all-seeing eye (seer's eye spell)"), ("I_SPELLS+1", "falling rocks from a cracked ceiling (cave-in spell)"),
+  ("I_SPELLS+2", "a winged boot (haste spell)"), ("I_SPELLS+3", "a fist of grey stone (stoneskin spell)"), ("I_SPELLS+4", "gold coins raining down (gold rain spell)"),
+  ("I_SPELLS+5", "a fading translucent ghostly figure (invisibility spell)"), ("I_SPELLS+6", "a green skull in a sickly cloud (plague spell)"),
+  ("I_SPELLS+7", "cracked shaking ground with rocks jumping (quake spell)")]),
+]
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diff --git a/src/gfx.rs b/src/gfx.rs
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--- a/src/gfx.rs
+++ b/src/gfx.rs
@@ -414,6 +414,20 @@ const HD_DECALS: [(u32, &[u8], &[u8]); 8] = [
     hd_obj!(D_SHARD, "shard"),
 ];
 
+// the interface icons of the high-res style (art/generated/icons/): strips of icons, 64x64 and
+// 128x128, for these cells in this order
+macro_rules! hd_icons {
+    ($name:literal, $cells:expr) => {
+        (include_bytes!(concat!("../assets/textures/icons/", $name, "-64.png")) as &[u8], include_bytes!(concat!("../assets/textures/icons/", $name, "-128.png")) as &[u8], $cells)
+    };
+}
+const HD_ICONS: [(&[u8], &[u8], &[u32]); 4] = [
+    hd_icons!("tools", &[I_PICK, I_HAND, I_SELL, I_FLAG, I_BOLT, I_HEAL, I_SUMMON, I_BRIDGE, I_WALL, I_STEEL]),
+    hd_icons!("towers", &[I_ARROW, I_CANNON, I_MAGIC, I_RUNE, I_DRAWBRIDGE, I_RAM, I_CATAPULT, I_ORDERS, I_ORDERS + 1, I_FREEZE]),
+    hd_icons!("traps", &[I_TRAPS, I_TRAPS + 1, I_TRAPS + 2, I_TRAPS + 3, I_TRAPS + 4, I_TRAPS + 5, I_TRAPS + 6, I_TRAPS + 7, I_TRAPS + 8, I_TRAPS + 9]),
+    hd_icons!("spells", &[I_SPELLS, I_SPELLS + 1, I_SPELLS + 2, I_SPELLS + 3, I_SPELLS + 4, I_SPELLS + 5, I_SPELLS + 6, I_SPELLS + 7]),
+];
+
 // Everything else in the world (see art/generated/textures/all/): a kind's own cells get as many
 // variants as it has cells, tiles that fit together in any order (one seamless border, different
 // middles), and a tile picks one by its position. (first cell, cells, 64x64 tiles side by side,
@@ -606,6 +620,17 @@ fn gen_hd_atlas(tile: u32) -> Image {
             }
         }
     }
+    for &(png, png2, cells) in HD_ICONS.iter() {
+        let src = Image::from_file_with_format(if tile == HD_TILE2 { png2 } else { png }, Some(ImageFormat::Png)).expect("hd icons");
+        for (v, &id) in cells.iter().enumerate() {
+            let (ox, oy) = ((id % ATLAS_COLS) * tile, (id / ATLAS_COLS) * tile);
+            for y in 0..tile {
+                for x in 0..tile {
+                    img.set_pixel(ox + x, oy + y, src.get_pixel(v as u32 * tile + x, y));
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
     // the generated pictures take on the colours of the 16x16 cells they replace (mean and
     // contrast per channel, most of the way), so switching between the styles keeps the look
     let range = |a: u32, n: u32| (a..a + n).collect::<Vec<u32>>();
@@ -3269,6 +3294,13 @@ mod hd_atlas_tests {
             }
         }
         }
+        // the icons: a strip with one icon per cell
+        for &(png, png2, cells) in HD_ICONS.iter() {
+            for tile in [HD_TILE, HD_TILE2] {
+                let src = Image::from_file_with_format(if tile == HD_TILE2 { png2 } else { png }, Some(ImageFormat::Png)).unwrap();
+                assert_eq!((src.width as u32, src.height as u32), (cells.len() as u32 * tile, tile));
+            }
+        }
         // the variants: as many tiles as the kind has cells, every cell filled
         for &(base, n, png, png2) in HD_VARS.iter() {
             for tile in [HD_TILE, HD_TILE2] {
diff --git a/tools/cut_icons.py b/tools/cut_icons.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Cut a generated sheet of icons (a grid on a flat magenta background) into transparent icons
+for the high-res atlas: every cell keyed (only nearly pure magenta goes, so violet glows stay),
+cropped to its icon, centred in a square with a small margin and scaled down without fringes,
+the alpha made hard.
+
+Usage:
+  cut_icons.py raw.png out_prefix --grid ROWSxCOLS [--count N] [--margin 0.06]
+
+Writes out_prefix-64.png and out_prefix-128.png: the icons side by side in reading order, and
+out_prefix-preview.png (on a grey background, 2x). Needs Pillow.
+"""
+import argparse
+
+from PIL import Image
+
+
+def keyed(p):
+    r, g, b = p[:3]
+    return r > 170 and b > 170 and g < 90 and abs(r - b) < 70
+
+
+def main():
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    ap.add_argument("raw")
+    ap.add_argument("out")
+    ap.add_argument("--grid", required=True)
+    ap.add_argument("--count", type=int, default=0)
+    ap.add_argument("--margin", type=float, default=0.06)
+    a = ap.parse_args()
+    rows, cols = (int(v) for v in a.grid.split("x"))
+    n = a.count or rows * cols
+
+    img = Image.open(a.raw).convert("RGBA")
+    px = img.load()
+    for y in range(img.height):
+        for x in range(img.width):
+            if keyed(px[x, y]):
+                px[x, y] = (0, 0, 0, 0)
+    icons = []
+    for i in range(n):
+        r, c = divmod(i, cols)
+        cell = img.crop((c * img.width // cols, r * img.height // rows, (c + 1) * img.width // cols, (r + 1) * img.height // rows))
+        box = cell.getchannel("A").point(lambda v: 255 if v > 0 else 0).getbbox() or (0, 0, cell.width, cell.height)
+        icon = cell.crop(box)
+        side = int(max(icon.size) * (1 + 2 * a.margin))
+        sq = Image.new("RGBA", (side, side), (0, 0, 0, 0))
+        sq.paste(icon, ((side - icon.width) // 2, (side - icon.height) // 2))
+        icons.append(sq)
+    for size in (64, 128):
+        strip = Image.new("RGBA", (size * n, size), (0, 0, 0, 0))
+        for k, sq in enumerate(icons):
+            small = sq.resize((size, size), Image.BOX)
+            sp = small.load()
+            for y in range(size):
+                for x in range(size):
+                    r, g, b, al = sp[x, y]
+                    if al < 110:
+                        sp[x, y] = (0, 0, 0, 0)
+                    else:
+                        f = 255 / al
+                        sp[x, y] = (min(255, int(r * f)), min(255, int(g * f)), min(255, int(b * f)), 255)
+            strip.paste(small, (k * size, 0))
+        strip.save(f"{a.out}-{size}.png")
+    prev = Image.new("RGBA", (64 * n, 64), (80, 76, 84, 255))
+    prev.alpha_composite(Image.open(f"{a.out}-64.png"))
+    prev.resize((prev.width * 2, prev.height * 2), Image.NEAREST).save(f"{a.out}-preview.png")
+    print(f"{a.out}: {n} icons")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()