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Designing Buttons for Windows 7 Applications
Read about the newest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your products and Web projects.Producing standalone application or designing a Web site? Make sure your interface looks modern and up-to-date by checking the icons used against modern standards. This article explains the newest trends in drawing contemporary, good-looking graphics for your software and on-line projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The 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 largest size of the images 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 images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully thought of images 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 software, making it simpler to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make objects and actions easier to find and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icon images designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the images share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with semi-transparency. 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 777 icons to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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