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Icon sizes: 256x256, 64x64, 48x48, 32x32, 24x24, 16x16 File formats: ICO, GIF, PNG, BMP ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Have you considered using stock icons?There is surely no dearth of online establishments that provide stock icons; however, people often ponder if incorporating these stock icons will change the look of their website template and tools; so, here is some information on how you can benefit by using stock icons.If you are into website designing or are a programmer adept at application programming, you must already know that pictorial depictions of the various functions are often the first impression creators; they can turn your software or site from being merely functional to one that is has a professional touch, user friendly and attractive. However, creating your own icon collection is anything but easy and of course time consuming. If you hire the services of a web graphics designer, you will land up spending a small fortune for the icons. On the other hand, you will be able to get similar quality from stock icon sets offered over the internet for a fraction of the cost. A set of stock icons will generally have more than a hundred icons, sold in various graphic formats that are ideal for representing the functions that are commonly observed on every second websites and software programs; for example, help, copy, paste, lock etc. If you could not buy stock icons that suit your requirements, you can also contact one of these online establishments and ask them to design specialized graphics for you; this is an immensely suitable option; to state it factually, the the person who created the other icons in the series will be in a better position to retain some degree of consistency in all the graphics of a series devoted to a particular theme. The second doubt that most people ponder over is whether they should opt for the commercial varieties or get free collections, so here is a look at some of the positive attributes of commercial icon collections over the free collections: Rate: The cost of an collection of graphics can be in the range of $100 and over based on the quantity of icons. However, free images will normally have royalty concerns and/or you will need to include accreditations while you use them on your site. Size: Commercial quality image collections can be purchased in a variety of pixels, so even though you pay for a single icon, you will get them in an assortment of sizes like 16x16, 24x24 etc; you can also buy them in various states such as disabled, hot etc. However; free images can only be procured in a one size and state License: You may have to face some problems with the free license; you will not have the liberty to make changes to the icons nor will you have a free hand 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. Usability: Good icon libraries will usually contain ample of pictures to meet all your application and website design expectation but with free icons even if you were to manage to get images of an acceptable quality, these are very rare which means that it may be impossible to use them in your application creation and web designing. ![]()
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