Inventory Icons

While icons in Firefall are differentiated by their color, they also have a pattern overlay to the background depending on the type of item, which isn't so easily noticable.

Equipment
Equipment icons show the quality/value of an item by the color of it's background - here in increasing order of quality:

- Common/White (the color of the item's name in the tooltip, not the icon color)

- Uncommon/Green

- Rare/Blue

- Epic/Purple

Resources
Resources (minerals, components and other things used in manufacturing) are colored similarly to equipment, except no purple resources are present:



Nanoprints
Icons with a turquoise background are single use nanoprints. The tiny triangle in the bottom right corner of the icon shows the quality of the item that the nanoprint will usually produce (the color is a bit more visible in game).

- A nanoprint for an item of equipment.

- Encrypted nanoprints require decrypting (similar to research), and produce a normal nanoprint, for an item of equipment of a random type.

Research
Icons with a background that fades green to brown, with a kind of bubble pattern to it, are research. They can produce Templates or Refining Processes.



Templates
Icons with a blue background are templates (it's the same blue as equipment, except templates have a lighter grid pattern over the backgriund, while equipment icons have a subtle, darker crosshatch pattern). Like nanoprints except they can be used repeatedly.



Refining Processes
Icons with a brown background are refining processes.