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Round Icons Look Bad - danmeek - 10-07-2016
In all toolbars, round icons look bad. They appear very low resolution. If I take a round icon that looks fine on the Windows desktop and copy it to a toolbar, it looks irregular. This happens with all round icons.
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - Yuri Kobets - 10-08-2016
Please can you post the screenshot? Also, what icon size do you use on TLB?
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - danmeek - 10-08-2016
How do I post an image? I see no way to do that.
Icon size ix 40 x 40
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - Yuri Kobets - 10-09-2016
Quote:How do I post an image? I see no way to do that.Attachments section before "Post Reply" buttons.
Quote:Icon size ix 40 x 40Here is the problem. Usually I recommend to use the standard windows icon sizes: 16, 32, 48 (maybe 24). 40x40 non-standard size and TLB have to scale icon. Well... scale quality is not very good
I'll try to increase scale quality, but scaled icons will be always worse. As solution, I can recommend to find 40x40 icons in PNG format, or scale then in external image editor and apply then to the items.RE: Round Icons Look Bad - danmeek - 10-09-2016
So I found a 256 pixel version and used Faststone Image to reduce it to 40x40 and saved the bitmap (bmp) as a .ico file. I then changed to that icon in TB, and it looks even far worse than before. I also saved it in PNG format as an .ico file. That also looks just as bad as before.
I also tried setting TLB to use icons of 32 size or 48 size. Same problem. All round icons look bad.
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - danmeek - 03-09-2017
Somehow this problem has gone away. I did nothing to fix it.
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - Yuri Kobets - 03-10-2017
Hmm... it is interesting. What is your Windows version?
RE: Round Icons Look Bad - danmeek - 03-10-2017
Windows 10. The round icons looked bad in Windows 10 for many months. But now they look OK.