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Creating Icons for Windows Vista Applications
Read about the latest trends in producing contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your software and Web sites.Producing standalone application or designing a Web site? Make sure your product looks current and up-to-date by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This article explains the newest trends in designing contemporary, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than 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 icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look well defined on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller-size viewing experience, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and thought of icons enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great images improve usability and efficiency of products, making it simpler to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good images make buttons and actions simpler to learn and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently defined 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 view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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