: Generic icon sizes and software I would like to create a package of icons and offers them for download. But I have some questions relating to the creation of these icons software and the size

@Odierno310

I agree with @Alin . Basically, everything you intend to scale, create using vectors. Regarding the format, I would go with .png or .svg, because of interlacing and transparency, and because it's easy to convert to the usually needed .ico format. Regarding the size, I would recommend going up to 256px or even 512px for large Windows, OSX and Linux icons.

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@Cugini998

This is quite simple actually.

Let's take the software part:
My personal rule, whenever the design allows it, use a vector based software! Therefore, using Adobe Illustrator (for me) is the only choice.

When it comes to sizes, the first question that pops in my mind is if you really need to worry about it. You said they will be available for download and can be used for any purpose, therefore the answer is EPS (thank's to Andrew for pointing out my mistake regarding the file format).

To let them be used for any purpose you should really give the vector file for the user to resize according to their needs.

As a sidenote, i've seen people save at 16px , 32px and 64px format...

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