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Learn about the latest trends in creating contemporary Windows Vista-style buttons for your software and Web sites.Producing standalone application or developing an online project? Ensure your project looks modern and up-to-date by checking the glyphs used against current standards. This text explains the latest trends in drawing modern, good-looking icons for your off-line and Web projects.
With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for graphic designers. If you want your product look consistent with the newest version of Windows, it is important to read and understand the guidelines.
Not going much into technical details, Microsoft points out that Vista-style graphics differ from previously used XP-style icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new graphics becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains symbolic without becoming too realistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the graphics to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look well defined on modern high resolution monitors. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar images in Windows Vista have no details such as shadows, and are front-faced with no perspective.
Well-designed and thought of graphics enhance the appearance of your products, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of programs, making it easier to learn and more intuitive through better communication of ideas through symbols. Good graphics make buttons and actions easier to find and to use day by day.
Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of readily available application and toolbar icon images drawn in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the images share common style, colors and gamma, and come in all standard sizes, including the recently defined 256x256 True Color format with alpha-channel. 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 777icons.com to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons.
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