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Learn about the newest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style graphics for your products and Web sites.Producing standalone application or designing an online project? Ensure your design looks modern and up-to-date by checking the icons used against current standards. This article explains the latest trends in designing modern, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from older XP-style icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look detailed on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of images enhance the appearance of your software, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it easier to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions easier to find and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icons designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the graphics share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently added 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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