The quality of an icon is crucial, whenever the quick and intuitive understanding of an application feature matters. Therefore let Centigrade come up with a beautiful palette of custom icons, making it easier for your users to find and memorize functionality while at the same time enhancing your software with an attractive appearance.
Instant information
Verbose informational text phrases on your GUI require your users' time
and attention — not to mention the screen space that is needed to
display such text. What if there was an automagic method how your
application could put things across in less than 250 milliseconds? An
astonishingly fast way of transferring messages to your users' heads
without even forcing their consciousness to intervene, while still
requiring only a minimum of screen space? You will be pleased to hear
that such a way exists — using a beautiful palette of Centigrade
custom icons.
Features with faces
The hours spent for planning, implementing and testing your application features can become an inflationary dimension during a development sprint. Each feature means high costs and expenses. The resulting deliverable may be powerful, yet still faceless to your users. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a way to value, promote and identify your application features for an evanescent fraction of the costs and expenses their actual development took? Nice — but not too nice to be true: A Centigrade-crafted icon palette can accomplish exactly this.
Tailored individually and exclusively
We develop an individual icon style that exactly suites your software and your company. As you receive exclusive usage rights, you stand out from your competitors in a positive and unmistakable way. Benefit from the competitive edge that a set of exclusive icons can deliver. In case individuality and exclusiveness does not have the highest priority, our stock icons in our shop may be an interesting alternative for you.
Individual and exclusive icons
for a
Java™ Rich Client used for energy trading business.
Versatility included
Since every Centigrade icon is constructed as a vector-based image, there are no limitations regarding size or output medium — offering you a vast array of potential applications. Toolbars, buttons, context menus or decorated list items are just the tip of the iceberg. Think of all the other possibilities.
For example, use your Centigrade icons as:
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Your Contact
David Patrizi
+49 (0) 681 / 959 3110
Icons for Windows® 7
Download this ZIP file, containing PNG images with a size of 256x256 pixel each.
Our Icon Process
Sketch.
We start with a rough paper and pencil sketch to evaluate if the icon is intuitively understandable.
Shape.
We compose the icon using basic shapes. In this stage the icon looks still flat and unpolished.
Finish.
We polish the icon by adding shadows and highlights. A color correction step at the end of the process ensures that the icon matches with other icons of the same palette.
The Shrinking Icon Phenomenon
Today's display resolutions grow larger and larger, leading to more, yet smaller pixels per inch (ppi).
What on a 15" screen with a resolution of 800x600 pixels may look like a normal part of the user interface will on an equally sized screen with a much higher resolution become an unrecognizable conglomeration of dots. Microsoft addresses this issue by shipping each Windows 7 application icon at a size of 256x256 pixels, while Apple even goes with 512x512 pixels for Mac OS X Leopard icons. You can address this issue by ordering your icons at Centigrade.
Each Centigrade icon is crafted as a vector graphics image and can
therefore be easily optimized for different target resolutions.
Future-proof.