1. Create shapes and lines
Start with basic shapes and lines as the foundation of your icon design. CorelDRAW has tools for drawing lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, and many other common shapes.
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Icons can create visual consistency across various projects, including websites, presentations, and other collateral material. CorelDRAW is the perfect tool to help you flawlessly design and deliver icons in a few simple steps:
Start with basic shapes and lines as the foundation of your icon design. CorelDRAW has tools for drawing lines, rectangles, ellipses, polygons, stars, and many other common shapes.
This step is about building on the foundation of basic shapes and lines to refine them into the icon you want. Weld/combine two or more shapes/lines together to create new custom shapes, trim overlapping segments, and use nodes to reshape curves and angles.
You can leave your icon as a simplified version (black outline with no fill), but you can also add color fills, change the outline color/width, or even add gradient or pattern fills.
Save the CDR file for future editing. Export as PNG (if you want a transparent background) or other file formats as needed. Don’t forget to walk through our quick tutorial on creating an icon in CorelDRAW.
You’ve designed the perfect icon or library of icons with CorelDRAW. Now what? Incorporate them into your projects, websites, social media posts, and more.
Add some visual interest to your message by including strategic icons. Instead of cumbersome text blocks, you can add colorful icons to communicate your message faster and more efficiently. It’s a quick and easy way to effectively reach your audience.
Stay connected with icons. Incorporate a few universal social media symbols to ensure you can be found on a multitude of platforms. These icons can be added to the end of your story, project, or online collateral.
Integrate a few key icons into your website so users have an instant visual on how to navigate your site. The page placement will provide helpful indicators of where to go and what to do. You can provide a road map to awards, key features, or FAQs.
Engage your audience with the visual aid of icons. They can draw attention to new launches, increased earnings, or other valuable information you want to highlight. An icon is the perfect stand-in for text.
Show your message instead of telling it. Intersperse icons within your design layout. It can provide a winning combination of both show and tell. Give yourself the creative freedom to mix it up with icons that are strategically placed to complement your designs.
Once you open CorelDRAW, you create an object (or a set of objects) and choose “Create New Symbol.”
If you need to design several symbols, you can create a Symbol Library to populate your project or website.
Best of all, if you edit a symbol, it will apply a universal change.
Yes! Open CorelDRAW and create a new document to design your logo. Next, choose the text you want to include, incorporate clipart or images, and apply the desired colors.
CorelDRAW has specific tools to help you with logo shapes, typography, color matching, exporting, and more.
There are several ways to add them to your projects: First, you can import existing icons from your desktop.
Or you can design new icons from scratch using a variety of shape tools in CorelDRAW.
And finally, you can purchase different themed VectorStock icon collections from the Welcome Screen in CorelDRAW.
Don’t forget to sign in to walk through our quick tutorial on how to create an icon in CorelDRAW.
Sketch, design, and communicate your universal message or desired action with a practical, recognizable icon designed with CorelDRAW.
