Pixel perfect icons

The design is greatly affected by small details. Well designed and easily understandable icons are essential to make our application attractive and friendly. The icons we create will be finally rendered on screens with a given resolution. Some techniques can help us to create icons that render well on different screens, giving our design a more polished result.

Icon from Material Design with their points placed on exact positions and with curves realized at 90 degrees angles (source: Screenshot from Illustrator)

The first thing we must do is choose one or several sizes of artboard for the icons we create for our application. ...

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