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Icon sizes: 512x512, 256x256, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing Buttons for Windows Vista ApplicationsRead about the latest trends in producing modern Windows Vista-style images for your products and Web sites.Producing software or developing a Web site? Make sure your design looks modern and up-to-date by checking the icons used against current standards. This article explains the newest trends in designing modern, good-looking icons for your software and Web projects. With every new version 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 images differ from previously used XP-style images in several ways. The drawing style of the new images 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 largest 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 icons bear enough visual distinctiveness even in their lowest sizes. Toolbar graphics in Windows Vista have no very little details such as shadows, and are flat with no perspective. Well-designed and carefully thought of images enhance the appearance of your programs, making them more consistent with Windows and third-party software installed on the user’s PC. Good icons improve usability and efficiency of software, making it easier 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 stock 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 semi-transparency. 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 777 icons to view full-size previews of Vista Toolbar Icons. ![]()
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