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Common icon sizes

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Common icon sizes

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- [Instructor] So now that we know how to build icons ourselves, it's really important to know what the output size of an icon should be. Now, if you're designing icons for prints, you actually have a little bit more room to maneuver. But if this is a series of icons that is destined to be put on a screen, as in a user interface, or maybe for a mobile application, you have to realize that you have to read all the specifications that are required for exporting those icons. So this is mainly resolution, the sizes that you need to provision because you will need to export more than one version of the same icon, but that a different size, and of course, other specifications for clarity and colors. So again, be sure to educate yourself. Now, let me just point you in the right direction. If you are creating icons that you want to base on a Windows size, like a default, expert size for Windows, let's say you're building this for…

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