: What are "up-to-date" or "modern" icons? My icons have been (lightly) criticized as "too 1998-ish": http://www.sellmycalls.com/pics/98ish-icons.png From left to right: refresh; auto/manual refresh toggle;

@Berumen635

it seems that your still working with window 98 pattern....




windows Xp

You can see the difference which one you will like the most?? the same thing is happening with your client he also want which looks good as i like the xp thing.

in 90's we guys wasn't aware of vector,things worked with pixel only,you can see the changes in games later on we had pixel arts in game but as time passes away everyone start caring about vectors the smoothness,actually your working with pixel icons and your client want to see vectors/glossy eye catching and soothing icons

There are some very good articles on


Rules of modern icon design
Know Your Icons Part – Modern Icon Design




You can download some free icon PSD form this site

Modern Icons web Mantra

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@Angela777

I think it would be good to browse through some popular icon sets to become familiar with the visual vocabulary that icon set designers use. Look at the Silk icon set I'm sure you'll recognize many in there.

But, essentially I would say that the reason your icons don't look up-to-date is because they really lack refinement and craft, something commonly missing from early era web design.

Anti-alias all your shapes (or none of them), proportion the images similarly, think carefully about communicating the concept behind the action more clearly. And choose a color scheme that is complementary to your surrounding UI.

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@Speyer780

A few thoughts...


The icons look flat — there's
no effort at a 3D effect, shadows, gradients,
texture, etc.
The colors are very bright and
primary.
All lowercase for auto. I think if it
were all caps or small caps that
would somehow seem fresher.
I'm amused by the lime-green HAL for
"alerts" rather than something with
an exclamation point...


If you want fashionable, try here.

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