Windows application bar icons

These controls are optimized for use in a command bar, and their appearance changes depending on whether the control is used in the command bar or the overflow menu. The size of the icons when shown in the primary command area is 20x20px; in the overflow menu, icons are displayed at 16x16px. If you use SymbolIcon , FontIcon , or PathIcon , the icon will automatically scale to the correct size with no loss of fidelity when the command enters the secondary command area.

For more information and examples of setting the icon, see the documentation for the AppBarButton class. In a CommandBar control, the command bar overwrites the button's IsCompact property automatically as the command bar is opened and closed.

On larger windows, consider moving labels to the right of app bar button icons to improve legibility. Labels on the bottom require users to open the command bar to reveal labels, while labels on the right are visible even when command bar is closed. In overflow menus, labels are positioned to the right of icons by default, and LabelPosition is ignored.

Button labels should be short, preferably a single word. Longer labels below an icon will wrap to multiple lines, increasing the overall height of the opened command bar. You can include a soft-hyphen character 0x00AD in the text for a label to hint at the character boundary where a word break should occur.

In XAML, you express this using an escape sequence, like this:. Consider logical groupings for the commands, such as placing Reply, Reply All, and Forward in a Respond menu. While typically an app bar button activates a single command, an app bar button can be used to show a MenuFlyout or Flyout with custom content. If you want to add more than one element, you need to place them in a panel container and make the panel the single child of the Content property.

When dynamic overflow is enabled, content will not clip because primary commands can move into the overflow menu. Otherwise, primary commands take precedence and may cause the content to be clipped. When the ClosedDisplayMode is Compact , the content can be clipped if it is larger than the compact size of the command bar.

You should handle the Opening and Closed events to show or hide parts of the UI in the content area so that they aren't clipped. The command bar can be open or closed. Otherwise, the system looks for a high-contrast version of the asset. If it can't find one, the system draws the plated form of the asset instead. For more info about splash screens, see Windows app splash screens.

When you use the asset generator to generate all the assets you need, there's a reason why it doesn't generate badge logos by default: they're very different from other app assets.

The badge logo is a status image that appears in notifications and on the app's tiles. For more information, see Badge notifications for Windows apps. By default, Visual Studio asset generator applies recommended padding to whatever image. If your images already contain padding or you want full bleed images that extend to the end of the tile, you can turn this feature off by unchecking the Apply recommended padding check box. There are 4 tile sizes: small 71 x 71 , medium x , wide x , and large x If you don't want your icon to extend to the edge of the tile, you can use transparent pixels in your asset to create padding.

This prevents overlapping of elements in the branding bar:. Some icons are designed to be horizontally or vertically oriented, while others have more complex shapes that prevent them from fitting squarely within the target dimensions. Icons that appear to be centered can be weighted to one side. In this case, parts of an icon may hang outside the recommended footprint, provided it occupies the same visual weight as a squarely fitted icon:.

With full-bleed assets, take into account elements that interact within the margins and edges of the tiles. This percentage represents double the width of the margins at the smallest tile sizes:. This article described how to create assets for specific scale factors, but you can also create assets for a wide variety of conditions and combinations of conditions.

For example, you can can create icons for high contrast displays or for the light themes and dark themes. You can even create assets for specific languages. I would prefer not to do a complete reinstall of Windows 10 since I had just done this two days ago and don't particularly want to set everything up again.

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