Icons. Small images that appear in commands, hierarchies, templates, and so on. The default icon size used in Visual Studio is a 16x16 PNG. Icons produced by the image service automatically generate the XAML format for HDPI support.
Visual Studio uses modern-style icons, which have clean geometry and a 50/50 balance of positive/negative (light/dark), and use direct, understandable metaphors. Crucial icon design points center around clarity, simplification, and context.
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Don't overuse common elements like documents, folders, arrows, and the magnifying glass. Use such elements only when essential to the icon's meaning. For example, the right-facing magnifying glass should indicate only Search, Browse, and Find.
Don't cram too much information into an icon. A simple image that can be easily recognized or learned as a recognizable symbol is much more useful than an overly complex image. An icon cannot tell the whole story.
Visual Studio has within its UI a wide variety of icon types. Carefully consider the icon type during development. Don't use unclear or uncommon UI objects for your icon elements. Opt for the symbolic in these cases, such as with the Smart Tag icon. Note that the meaning of the abstract tag on the left is more obvious than the vague, UI-based version on the right:
Don't use a document as a base element unless it is essential to the icon's meaning. Without the document element on Add Document (below) the meaning is lost, whereas with Refresh the document element is unnecessary to communicate the meaning.
The concept of "show" should be represented by the icon which best illustrates what is being shown, such as with the Show All Files example. A lens metaphor may be used to indicate the concept of "view" if necessary, such as with the Resource View example.
To achieve ideal alignment and balance, avoid obstructing the icon's base element with action glyphs. Place the glyph near the top left of the base element. When adding an additional element, consider the alignment and balance of the icon.
Use consistent line and visual weights. Evaluate how the icon you are building compares to other icons by using a side-by-side comparison. Never use the entire 16x16 frame, use 15x15 or smaller. The negative-to-positive (dark-to-light) ratio should be 50/50.
Keep the icon clear and understandable. Use perspective and a light source only when necessary. Although using perspective on icon elements should be avoided, some elements are unrecognizable without it. In such cases, a stylized perspective communicates the element's clarity.
All new UI elements should be created using Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) and all new icons for WPF should be in 32-bit PNG format. The 24-bit PNG is a legacy format that does not support transparency and is therefore not recommended for icons.
32-bit PNG: the preferred format for icons. A lossless data compression file format that can store a single raster (pixel) image. 32-bit PNG files support alpha-channel transparency, gamma correction, and interlacing.
32-bit ICO: for Project icons and Add Item. All ICO files are 32-bit true color with alpha-channel transparency (RGB/A). Because ICO files can store multiple sizes and color depths, Vista icons are often in an ICO format containing 16x16, 32x32, 48x48, and 256x256 image sizes. In order to display properly in Windows Explorer, ICO files must be saved-down to 24-bit and 8-bit color depths for each image size.
XAML: for design surfaces and Windows adorners. XAML icons are vector-based image files that support scaling, rotating, filing, and transparency. They are not common in Visual Studio today but are becoming more popular because of their flexibility.
24-bit BMP: for the Visual Studio command bar. A true-color RGB image format, 24-bit BMP is an icon convention that creates a layer of transparency by using magenta (R=255, G=0, B=255) as a color key for a knock-out transparency layer. In a 24-bit BMP, all magenta surfaces are displayed using the background color.
The smallest icon size in Visual Studio is 16x16. The largest in common use is 32x32. Keep in mind not to fill up the entire 16x16, 24x24, or 32x32 frame when designing an icon. Legible, uniform icon construction is essential to user recognition. Adhere to the following points when building icons.
It is better to use the status notification elements as single icons and not to stack them on top of an icon base element. In certain contexts, the UI might require the status element to be paired with a base element.
Project icons are usually .ico files that contain several sizes. Only the 16x16, 24x24, and 32x32 icons are being updated. Most 16x16 and 24x24 icons will contain the same elements. The 32x32 icons contain more details, including the project language type when applicable.
Visual Studio compliance guidelines require that all icons in the product pass the accessibility requirements for color and contrast. This is achieved through icon inversion, and when you are designing, you should be aware they will be inverted programmatically in the product.
Visual Studio compliance guidelines require that all icons checked into the product pass the accessibility requirements for color and contrast. Colors in the visual language palette have been tested and meet these requirements.
In order to make icons appear with the correct contrast ratio in the Visual Studio dark theme, an inversion is applied programmatically. The colors in this guide have been chosen in part so that they invert correctly. Restrict your use of color to this palette, or you will get unpredictable results when the inversion is applied.
In special cases, a colored action modifier may be used independently as a standalone icon. The color used for the icon reflects the actions that the icon is associated with. This use is limited to a small subset of icons, including:
Each of the common languages or platforms available in Visual Studio has an associated color. These colors are used on the base icon, or on language modifiers that appear in the upper right corner of compound icons.
IcoMoon's icons are carefully designed on a 1616 grid. As a result, these icons look crisp and sharp in sizes as small as 16px. See this 16px preview of all the icons available in the Ultimate pack.
Ligatures are powerful but underrated. Using ligatures, a word can be associated to a font glyph. You can download IcoMoon's free ligature font here. Both Essential and Ultimate packs come with their own ligature font.
IcoMoon's icons come in various different formats, both in vector and raster. This lets you use and customize the icons with ease. In addition to these standard formats, these icon packs come with a special file that can be imported to the IcoMoon App, which allows you to select the icons that you need, to make custom icon fonts. An icon font is a font that has icons as its glyphs. These icon packs are also available through IcoMoon App's library.
When the first version of IcoMoon was released, it only contained 225 icons! Today, IcoMoon's ultimate pack comes with over 1600 icons. Based on the requests received, more and more icons will be added to all of IcoMoon's icon packs. Let us know if you have any icon suggestions :)
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Why do you need a favicon? Users will remember and recognoize it, they would find a tab with your favicon among other tabs faster, scanning, as we all do, and not loosing time trying to read the tab name. Favicons also add to overall branding consistency and their absence might be seen as unprofessional.
Favicons are used in browser tabs, browser history, toolbar apps, bookmarks dropdown, search bar, and search bar recommendations. In all of these, especially in the bookmarks and histoty tabs, that consist of lists of URLs all looking the same, the favicon makes it faster to find that web-site you're looking for.
The key to favicon design is simplicity. You have a tiny amount of space to work with and details will not be visible, so it's important to keep the shapes clean. Sometimes you can fit letters, but the general rule is to avoid them if your logo doesn't have a "short" version like LinkedIn's does. Some of the logos can be used for favicons as they are, and some only in the simplified version, and of course you need to keep the colors of the favicon on brand.
This set is part of the Axialis Flat Pro 2017 icon family. This icon family, which is compatible with Axialis IconGenerator, was designed for use in ribbons & menus of Windows applications. The style, which is flat, colorful and professional-looking, is compatible with Office 2016 and Windows 8/10.
To let you cover all your needs, Axialis IconGenerator is provided in the icon set. This free application lets you generate all files formats, customize with overlays and colorize icons. If you need specific additional icons, suggest them.
The Social Media icon set contains 64 unique icons and 76 overlays. This lets you create thousands of different icons for your all your needs. Below is a preview of the base icons without derivations Click here to see the full set at scale 4:1 with icon labels:
This set is part of the Axialis Line Design icon family. Compatible with Axialis IconGenerator, this icon family was designed for use in web sites & applications. The style is lined & slightly rounded which lets you create modern user interfaces. 2ff7e9595c
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