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Image sizes: 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Should you use stock icons?There is definitely no lack of websites that provide stock icons; however, people often wonder if including these stock icons will change the look of their website template and applications; so, here is a look at how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are into website designing or are a programmer adept at application programming, you must already know that graphics are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can change your application or site from being just functional to one that is has a professional touch, user friendly and eye catching. However, designing your own stock icons is anything but easy and of course time consuming. If you enlist the help of a web graphics designer, you will have to dole out an exorbitant amount for the graphics. On the contrary, you could procure similar quality from stock icon sets available online for a fraction of the cost. A collection of stock icons can include more than a hundred icons, offered in a variety of file formats that are ideal for depicting the functions that are commonly observed on every second websites and software programs; for instance, help, lock , copy, paste and others. If you cannot find stock icons that suit your requirements, you can always approach one of these online establishments and request them to create a custom icon for you; this is an immensely suitable option; simply, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to retain some semblance of similarity in all the graphics of a series devoted to a specific theme. The next doubt that a majority of people think about is whether they should choose the commercial varieties or go for free collections, so here is some insight on the advantages of commercial icon collections as compared to the free pictures: Price: The price of an icon collection is generally in the vicinity of $100 and above based on the quantity of icons. However, free images will usually have royalty issues and/or you will need to include accreditations when they are put to use on your site. Size: Commercial quality stock icon sets can be purchased in a myriad of pixels, so even if you pay for a singular image, you will get them in an assortment of sizes such as 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also get them in several states like disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images can only be procured in a singular size and state License: You may encounter some issues with the a license that costs nothing; you will not have the liberty to modify the icons in anyway nor will you have the permission to use them multiple times but with commercial stock icons, you can incorporate the images in web designing whenever and wherever you want. Usability: Professional icon sets will generally feature quite a few graphics to suit all your software and web graphic needs ; however, with free images even if you can procure fairly good graphics, these are very rare which means that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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