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Image sizes: 1024x1024, 512x512, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Creating Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 ProjectsRead about the latest trends in designing contemporary Windows Vista-style images for your software and Web projects.Producing software or developing a Web site? Ensure your product looks current and up-to-date by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This text explains the newest trends in designing modern, good-looking images for your software and Web projects. With every new release of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for icon designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest Windows release, it is important to read and understand the guidelines. Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style icons differ from older XP-style images in several ways. The drawing 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 maximum size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that programs look good on modern high resolution monitors. 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 details such as shadows, and are flat 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 graphics improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it faster to use 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 stock application and toolbar icon images 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 programs designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Simply visit 777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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