Gold Hour
Warm gold with a slow wave, for a sign that reads expensive.
- Reads
- LOS SANTOS
- Typeface
- alfaslab
- Motion
- Wave
- Palette
- #ff9d2f#ffe7a8
- Models
- 9 letters plus their supports
- Price
- $20, one payment
A heavy slab serif in two golds, with a slow wave travelling along the row so the letters catch light one after another. Twelve second loop, low animation depth — it reads as a lit sign rather than an effect. This is the build for casino, luxury and high-end roleplay servers where the hillside should look like money rather than a nightclub.
How the wave animation behaves
Brightness rolls through the letters as a smooth curve rather than a hard edge, so the sign appears to undulate. Neighbouring letters are always close in brightness, which keeps the word legible while it moves.
Wave is the gentler relative of the sweep: the same travel, none of the hard boundary.
The typeface
Gold Hour is set in Alfa Slab One, a heavy slab serif with real weight on the hillside. You are not locked to it — the banner creator carries 82 typefaces across 12 styles, and swapping one in keeps the palette and the motion exactly as they are. You can also upload a font of your own if your server already has one.
Where this style works
Amber rolling through heavy slab serifs — the look of a sign photographed an hour before sunset. It suits servers with a warmer, slower identity: western, rural, period, or a city that wants to feel lived-in rather than neon-lit.
Day and night
Gold is forgiving after dark because it sits close to the colour of the street lighting, so the sign reads as warm rather than bright. In daylight the slab serifs carry it: Alfa Slab One has enough weight that the sign works even with the glow off.
Three things to change first
- Keep the wave gentleThe point of a wave is that neighbouring letters stay close in brightness. Pushing the amount breaks that.
- Let the word be longThis is one of the few styles here that suits a two-word place name rather than a short one.
- Warm the second colour tooA cool highlight in a gold ramp reads as a mistake rather than a contrast.
What you actually get
A drop-in FiveM map resource: the letters or the cut-out as .ydr models, the colour ramp as a texture, a clip dictionary that animates it, the type definitions, the placement and a manifest. There is no script in the folder, so it costs no frame time, it keeps running when your resources restart, and every player sees the same frame of the loop. Building it takes about a minute after payment and the download never expires. Changing the design later and rebuilding is $10.
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Questions about this style
Can I put my own words on the Gold Hour style?
Yes — LOS SANTOS is only what the sample reads. Opening this style in the banner creator loads its palette, typeface and motion, and the text is the first thing you change. Nothing about the style is tied to the words.
What does the wave animation cost in game?
Nothing measurable. The movement is baked into the map as a colour strip and a clip dictionary, the same mechanism the base game uses for its own moving signage, so there is no script and no per-frame work on any client.
Can I change the colours afterwards?
The palette is baked into the textures when the resource is built, so changing it means a rebuild. Doing that from your saved design costs $10; everything else about the design stays as you left it.