No doubt you’ve seen many blogs and other sites that use rounded boxes with soft gradients and drop shadows. Creating one doesn’t have to be difficult, and you don’t even need to use the gradient tool to achieve an effect that looks very similar to this:

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I’ve decided to toy around a bit with Inkscape and put together my own icon set. Take a look, if you’re interested! It only contains three icons right now but they might be useful for things like warning, info, and error dialog boxes.