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How does a PowerPoint insert of the thumb icon differ from copying the SVG?

The insert guide’s PowerPoint path drops a PNG of the thumb icon onto the slide. Copying the SVG keeps vectors you can recolor. At 41 px the PNG is often enough; past that size, or on a poster, the SVG copy stays sharp. Search finds the file, and the guide tells you which gesture places it.

At a glance

What the PNG insert doesPowerPoint, Keynote, and Slides place a raster of the thumb icon. It looks…
What the SVG copy doesCopying the thumb icon SVG keeps vectors. On a recolorable pack the stroke…
Keynote and SlidesThe same split holds outside PowerPoint. Keynote and Google Slides also…
Do not mix them by accident — thumb-iconA slide that uses a PNG thumb icon at 41 px and an SVG of a neighbor will not…

Insert the PNG when the thumb icon stays near 41 px on a 16:9 slide and you will not recolor it. Copy the SVG when the mark is a button, a diagram node, or anything you will scale. Both gestures start from the same search result.

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Insert the PNG when the thumb icon stays near 41 px on a 16:9 slide and you will not recolor it. Copy the SVG when the mark is a button, a diagram node, or anything you will scale. Both gestures start from the same search result.

What the PNG insert does

PowerPoint, Keynote, and Slides place a raster of the thumb icon. It looks right at 41 px and blurs if you drag the handles far past that. You cannot change the stroke color without editing pixels.

What the SVG copy does

Copying the thumb icon SVG keeps vectors. On a recolorable pack the stroke follows the font color. That is the right file when one mark must appear at 41 px in a toolbar and much larger in a diagram.

Keynote and Slides

The same split holds outside PowerPoint. Keynote and Google Slides also rasterize a dropped PNG of the thumb icon. If you need the mark sharp above 41 px, place the SVG, not the slide-insert PNG.

Do not mix them by accident — thumb-icon

A slide that uses a PNG thumb icon at 41 px and an SVG of a neighbor will not share one recolor. Decide the gesture once per deck, then search for the rest of the set in the same form.

This page separates a slide insert from an SVG copy of the thumb icon. It does not redraw the icon or change the pack licence at 41 px.

Questions

Does the guide change the licence of the thumb icon?
No. A PNG insert and an SVG copy of the thumb icon carry the same badge. Choosing the gesture at 41 px does not turn CC-BY into MIT.
Can I recolor the PNG of the thumb icon in PowerPoint?
Only with picture tools that tint pixels, and the edge frays around 41 px. A recolorable SVG of the thumb icon follows the text color cleanly.
Where do I start if I only know the thumb icon by sight?
Search by the everyday name, open the tile, and then follow the insert guide. The 41 px preview is there so you confirm the thumb icon before either gesture.

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