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Icon sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you use stock icons?There is certainly no dearth of online establishments that provide stock icons; however, people often try to analyze if including these stock icons will make a difference to their website design and tools; so, here is some information on how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are designing a website or are a programmer adept at application programming, you probably know that pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can turn your application or site from being only functional to one that is has a professional touch, user friendly and attractive. However, making your own graphics is anything but easy and of course a task that will take up a lot of your time. If you hire the services of a web graphics designer, you will land up spending a bundle for the graphics. As opposed to this, you will be able to get the very same quality from stock icon sets sold online for a relatively low cost. A library of stock icons usually has more than 100 images, offered in various file formats that are useful for showing the functions that are commonly observed on every second websites and software programs; for example, copy, paste, lock and help etc. If you cannot get stock icons that meet your needs, you can simply get in touch one of these websites and ask them to make specialized graphics for you; this is by far the most preferable option; to put it simply, the original graphics artist will be in a better position to hold on to some semblance of consistency in all the graphics of a series created for a particular theme. The second query that a majority of people think about is whether they should choose the commercial images or pick free icon sets, so here is some insight on the benefits of commercial icon collections vis a vis the free images: Cost: The cost of an collection of graphics is to the tune of $100 and more depending on the number of graphical depictions. However, free icon collections will generally have infringement related concerns and/or you will have to use accreditations while you use them on your site. Size: Good quality image collections can be purchased in a variety of sizes, so even if you buy one icon, you should get them in an assortment of sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also buy them in various states such as disabled, hot etc. But unlike these; free images are only available in a singular state and size License: You may need to tackle some issues with the a license that costs nothing; you will not be able to make changes to the icons nor will you have the permission to use them multiple times but with professional icon collections, you can use the images as many times and in any project as you deem fit. Usability: Commercial stock icons will normally contain quite a few graphics to suit all your software and web graphic requirements ; however, with free images even if you do find fairly good graphics, they are far and few between this would mean that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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