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Designing Icons for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Projects
Learn about the latest trends in designing modern Windows Vista-style icons for your products and Web sites.Developing software or designing an online project? Make sure your project looks modern and contemporary by checking the graphics used against modern standards. This text explains the newest trends in making contemporary, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects.
With every new release of Windows, Microsoft refreshes guidelines for image designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest Windows, it is essential to read and comprehend the guidelines.
Not getting much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from older XP-style graphics in several ways. The drawing style of the new images becomes more realistic than cartoon-line XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the standard by defining the largest size of the graphics 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 images in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective.
Well-designed and carefully 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 images improve usability and efficiency of products, making it simpler to use and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good icons make buttons and actions simpler to find and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icons designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to all guidelines, the icons share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes and resolutions, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. Vista Toolbar Icons can be used in software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit www.777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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