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Making Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Applications
Read about the latest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your products and Web portals.Developing standalone application or developing a Web site? Make sure your product looks modern and contemporary by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking images for your off-line and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The style of the new icons becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the largest size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look detailed on modern hi-definition monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great graphics improve usability and efficiency of software, making it easier to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions easier to find and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icons drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the images share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in products 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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