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Icon sizes: 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16, 256x256 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Compelling Reasons to use stock icons?There is certainly no lack of online establishments that sell stock icons; however, people often try to analyze if using these stock icons will prove advantageous to their website design and applications; so, here is a look at how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are into website designing or are creating an application, you probably know that pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the things that add to the quality of your site; they can turn your software or site from being just functional to one that is has a professional touch, user friendly and attractive. However, designing your own stock icons can be incredibly taxing and of course a task that will take up a lot of your time. If you enlist the help of a web graphics designer, you will land up spending a bundle for the icon collection. On the other hand, you will be able to get the precise quality from stock icon sets available over the internet for a relatively low cost. A library of stock icons usually has 100 or more images, offered in various graphic formats that are perfect for showing the functions that are popularly seen on several websites and applications; for instance, copy, paste, lock and help etc. If you could not buy stock icons that meet your needs, you can also approach one of these websites and request them to design a custom icon for you; this is an immensely preferable option; to put it simply, the designer who worked on the original graphics will display a level of comfort with the theme which will help him to maintain some degree of commonality in all the icons in a series created for a specific theme. The next question that a majority of people ponder over is whether they should choose the commercial varieties or go for free icon sets, so here are some thoughts on the advantages of commercial icon collections vis a vis the free images: Rate: The rate of an collection of graphics is generally in the vicinity of $100 and more depending on the quantity of icons. However, free graphics will generally have royalty problems and/or you will have to include accreditations while you use them on your site. Size: Commercial quality stock icon sets can be purchased in a variety of pixels, so even though you pay for a single icon, you can get them in different sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also purchase them in various states such as disabled, hot etc. On the other hand; free images can only be downloaded in a single state and size License: You may encounter some issues with the licenses that are free; you will not be able to make changes to the icons nor will you have the permission to utilize them as much as you like but with commercial stock icons, you can incorporate the images in web designing as many times and in any project as you deem fit. Utility: Professional icon sets will generally contain enough images to cover all your software and web designing needs ; however, with free icons even if you were to procure fairly good graphics, they are far and few between this would mean that you will not be able to incorporate them in your applications. ![]()
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