Windows Phone Icons Set

Images sizes: 48x48 with centered 26x26 pictures
Compatibility: Windows 8, Windows Mobile, WP7
Background: transparent

File formats: PNG
Colors: white
Icon quantity: 505
Price: $79.00 / 69.00 EUR

Windows Phone Icons Set meets all of the requirements of the WP7 and Windows 8 operating systems. The icons have the right size, the right color, their content areas are perfectly centered and they are all 100% ready to be used in your applications.

All the icons are 48 x 48 pixels, mostly transparent, with the actual image located in a central square of 26x26 pixels. Technically, developers get 505 unique application bar icons drawn in required style, each coming in PNG file format.

Design Guidelines for Application Bar

You can add an application bar to your page both from XAML and code behind. There are some design guidelines for Application bar a developer must know about before designing and developing their Windows Phone application.

Application Bar has an in-built animation and rotation support. So, use it to keep consistency across all Windows Pone applications.

Always use an image of White color with Transparent background. If you have a different theme set for your phone, the Application Bar will colorize them accordingly.

Use 48 x 48 icon images with the actual image content placed within a center area of 26x26 pixels.

Never draw the circle for the icons as that is drawn by the Application Bar itself.

Use icons for most common commands. You can place only 1 - 4 icon buttons in the panel. Hence, if you want more than 4 commands to put in the Application Bar, use the Menu item for the additional actions.

Don't place more than 5 menu items in the application bar. This will create a scroll bar in the UI and the user will have to scroll to click on the items.

Don't add more than 20 characters in the menu items, as it doesn't have support for advance Text formatting like Trimming and/or Word Wrap.

Remember that, as the Application bar is not a Silverlight control, you can't use data binding for text. You have to hard code the text in XAML.

If you want localization support for your Application bar, you have to set the text from code behind dynamically.

Set opacity of Application bar to '0' (zero) if you want the bar overlaid on top of the page. Set it to '1' (one) if you want the page to properly adjust itself outside the covered area of application bar. image

Also remember that, all text items will be converted to lower case while running. So, never think it to be a bug.

Mac OS Snow Leopard Versus Windows 7 Icons - Both have Different Features

Both the MAC operating system and Windows 7 icons are running neck to neck when it comes to beauty and form. If you compare both the Mac OS and Windows 7 icons there are some difference you can note. The styles of both icons are very nice and clearly suggest a message what they indicate. If you look at the folder icon you can find some of the key difference between in these two icons. Both these icons use folder shape but Windows 7 use normal yellow color while Mac OS employ a speckled blue color which is just look like a recycled paper. This change with Leopard has made some criticism. Folders types are also different in between Mac OS and Windows 7. The new Windows 7 icons introduced with Vista on the other hand Mac OS has some icons that are awfully clear. There are also icons which are processing new styles.

Windows 7 has carries on glass like style that it debuted in the Windows Vista, and there are many possessing recent style, which steps far away from glassy look. One of them is the Wordpad that in Windows 7 follows different style. Also in the Mac OS X, TextEdit icon has the text that ran in 'Think Different' TV adverts which the Apple did in latter 90s. Also, there are a lot of icons, which have the playful touch than in the Windows that are known to present the business like, the utilitarian icons that have carried in the Windows 7. The Mac OS icons are also known to have the inventive bent. This, is tied explicitly to branding of every OS : Windows is the business oriented or Mac OS is artistically driven as well as personal.