Combat HUD in the Colosseum of Fools: soul vessel, masks and Geo

About this game

Developer: Team Cherry · Publisher: Team Cherry · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Hand-drawn & ink · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

The entire HUD is three glyphs in one corner, each a picture of the thing it counts. Soul, the resource that fuels spells and healing, fills a circular vessel drawn as the Knight's own mask face; health is a row of small masks beside it, white for the Knight's own and dark blue for the borrowed lifeblood masks that trail after them; money is a clustered-geo icon with a single number, 1813. There are no bars to estimate from, no minimap, no ability cooldowns, no boss health gauge, even here, mid-leap over a lunging foe in the Colosseum of Fools with the crowd roaring in the stands at both edges of the frame, the screen trusts those three icons to carry everything the player needs, and keeps the rest of the 1920 pixels for the fight and the colossal statue behind it. Frame at about 1:04 in the Release Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

minimal-hud status-row hud-overlay

Components

Parts on screen.

Minimap Gauge Button prompts

Screen inventory

• soul vessel at top left drawn as the Knight's white mask face on a circular gauge
• mask row beside the vessel: three white masks followed by four dark blue lifeblood masks
• Geo counter reading 1813 with a clustered-geo icon beneath the vessel
• the Knight mid-leap above a lunging armoured foe in the Colosseum of Fools arena
• crowds of masked bug spectators filling the stands at both edges
• a colossal horned statue looming over the arena's back wall
• no other on-screen UI: no bars, minimap, cooldowns or prompts

Top 3 colors

#3f2c35 24%#150d12 24%#a7a286 14%

Top three palette colors by share. The remaining colors make up the rest.

Source and credit

© Team Cherry, Hollow Knight screenshot: Release Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by Team Cherry.

Source tier 2 (publisher-released) · screenshot: Steam store page · Steam page

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-22. verified 2026-10-22: frame extracted by the pipeline scene-change pass from the official Release Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually at full resolution; real game UI (soul vessel, white and lifeblood mask row, Geo counter 1813) confirmed visible and legible; no trailer text overlays the frame

no published policy found (checked 2026-10-22); fair-use study use, takedown honored within 48h

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