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Icon sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 20x20, 16x16, 256x256, 128x128, 64x64, 512x512 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Compelling Reasons to use stock icons?There is definitely no lack of online establishments that provide stock icons; however, people often ponder if incorporating these stock icons will prove advantageous to their website design and tools; so, here is a look at how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are a web designer or are a programmer adept at application programming, you must already know that graphics are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can take your application or website from being merely functional to one that is is professional looking, simple to operate and attention grabbing. However, designing your own icon collection can be nothing short of harrowing and of course a waste of time.. If you enlist the help of a web graphics designer, you will end up paying him a small fortune for the icons. As opposed to this, you will be able to procure the precise quality from web graphics offered over the internet for a relatively low cost. A collection of stock icons will generally have more than 100 images, sold in various graphic formats that are ideal for showing the functions that are commonly observed on several websites and software programs; for instance, help, lock , copy, paste and others. If you don't find stock icons that meet your needs, you can always contact one of these websites and ask them to create exclusive icons for you; this is an immensely feasible option; to state it factually, the original graphics artist will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to hold on to some semblance of similarity in all the icons in a series created for a specific theme. The next question that most people wonder about is whether they should select the commercial images or get free icon sets, so here is a look at some of the benefits of commercial icon collections over the free collections: Price: The cost of an collection of graphics is to the tune of $100 and over based on the number of icons. However, free icon collections will normally have infringement related issues and/or you will need to offer accreditations when they are put to use on your site. Size: Good quality stock icon sets can be purchased in a myriad of pixels, so even if you buy a single icon, you should get them in an assortment of sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also buy them in several states like disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images are only available in a one state and size License: You may have to face some issues with the licenses that are free; you will not have the liberty to make changes to the icons nor will you be able to utilize them multiple times but with professional icon collections, you can utilize the stock icons innumerable times in the most esoteric contexts. Usability: Commercial stock icons will usually have quite a few graphics to suit all your software and web designing expectation but with free icons even if you were to manage to get images of an acceptable quality, these are very rare this would mean that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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