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Icon sizes: 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 60x60, 48x48, 40x40, 32x32, 30x30, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing Buttons for Windows 7 ProjectsLearn about the latest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style images for your programs and Web projects.Developing software or designing a Web site? Ensure your product looks current and contemporary by checking the images used against current standards. This text explains the latest trends in making contemporary, good-looking images for your off-line and on-line projects. With every new version of Windows, Microsoft updates guidelines for image designers. If you want your project look consistent with the newest version of 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 icons in several ways. The drawing style of the new icons becomes more realistic than XP icons, but still remains on the symbolic level without becoming photorealistic. Microsoft also extends the icon format by defining the maximum size of the icons to PNG-compressed 256x256 pixel images, effectively ensuring that applications look well defined on modern hi-definition displays. Finally, Microsoft recommends that toolbar icons are optimized for smaller sizes, and advises that toolbar images bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest resolutions. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no extra details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective. Well-designed and carefully thought of icons enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Great 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 learn and to use every day. Vista Toolbar Icons are a set of stock application and toolbar icons designed in the new Windows Vista/7 style. Strictly adhering to the latest guidelines, the graphics 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 software designed for Windows Vista, as application or toolbar icons, on Web sites and on-line portals. Just visit 777icons.com to access full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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