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Creating Toolbar Icons for Windows Vista Applications
Learn about the newest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style icons for your programs and Web portals.Developing standalone application or developing a Web site? Ensure your interface looks modern and contemporary by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing modern, good-looking graphics for your software and on-line projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows, it is essential to read and understand the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style images differ from previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the maximum size of the images to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, ensuring that applications look good on modern high resolution displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar graphics bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar icons in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and thought of icons enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it faster to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make objects and actions simpler to learn and to use every day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available 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 added 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. Simply visit 777 icons to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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