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Add decorative elements like patterns and highlights to make the design stand out without looking over complicated.
Remember to plan the colors for your icon set before you begin to render the icons. Doing this will ensure that the entire set uses the same tones and hues and works as a coherent set. Scaling the Design So here’s the trick I use to scale Toolbar icons. The handy thing about icons is that they scale in percentages – i.e. 16px is 50% of 32px and 64px is 200% of 32px and so on. Once you save the source file of the main icon, go to the Image Size dialogue to scale the design for the 16px icon. For this tip to work you need to change the Pixel Dimensions from pixels to percent, the scaling algorithm works much better with percentages and wont warp the resulting image. Type the percentage into the Pixel Dimensions and choose “Nearest Neighbor” from the Sampling options at the bottom.