Ministry of Labor work pass

About this game

Developer: Lucas Pope · Publisher: 3909 · Platform: PC (Steam) · Art style: Pixel art · Screen type: HUD & Gameplay UI

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What to study

Every document family gets its own paper design: the Ministry of Labor work pass is a lavender form with hatched security borders and a purple seal, reduced to three ruled fields (holder, field, until) whose values are exactly what the rulebook will ask you to verify. A plain-language sentence at the top explains what the pass grants the first time you see one, so the document teaches itself with no tutorial overlay. Frame at about 1:05 in the Papers, Please Trailer (Steam).

Patterns

How the screen is arranged.

document-card form-layout diegetic-document

Components

Parts on screen.

Document

Screen inventory

• ministry header
• hatched security border
• purple seal stamp
• holder/field/until form fields
• validity date

Top 3 colors

#181111 40%#d7b5c4 24%#171010 20%

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

Source and credit

© Lucas Pope / 3909, Papers, Please screenshot: Papers, Please Trailer (Steam), shown for design study and commentary. PlayCraft is an unofficial fan project, not affiliated with or endorsed by 3909.

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

Source details

Fetched 2026-10-20. verified 2026-10-20: frame extracted from the official Papers, Please Trailer (Steam) and inspected visually; real game UI (work pass document) confirmed visible

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