Thursday, February 10, 2011

20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets 2011


Free Icons For WebUser-friendly icon sets are always nice to look at and useful to have ready to hand. Since effective designers guide their users’ attention using visuals, icons can (and probably should) be used in almost every project you are or will be working on. Whether for an illustration, sketch, site or weblog – used moderately, icons can point users’ attention to the key-aspects of an article or specific site sections and communicate the message of the site in a more effective way.

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Let’s take a look at over 20 free, beautiful and fresh icon sets as well as references to further free icon libraries. Some of the sets can be used for free only for private projects, however most of them can also be used in commercial projects. In both cases – before using icon sets please read the license agreement carefully; it can change from time to time.

20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets

iPhoneSketch (FastIcon): 4 free icons of iPhone, designed in scribbled style, for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. The FastIcon-agreement permits you to use the icons in printed materials, commercial projects, software application, websites, blogs, designs, themes or GUI. However, the author requires an operable link to the source.

Free Icons For Web

iPhone icons (FastIcon): Browser, calendar, calculator, chat, clock, graphics, iPod, e-Mail, map, notes, phone, photo, sms, tools, wallpapers, weather.

Free Icons For Web

Smiley Development Kit: available in .psd (Adobe Photoshop) format.

Free Icons For Web

Flag Button Development Kit: it’s basically a Photoshop file with placeholders. To create a new button, just duplicate a layer group and paste the new flag into the respective layer. It’s as simple as that.

Free Icons For Web

YellowIcon Crystal Set (1500 icons, 22 Mb) and dozens of further icon sets. Sizes: 128×128, 16×16, 22×22, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64. By Everaldo Coelho.

Free Icons For Web

OpenPhone Pack contains 12 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. Licensed under GNU Public License.

Iphone2 in 20+ Free And Fresh Icon Sets

Free Icons For Web

Social Bookmark Iconset

Free Icons For Web

Mac OS Boxes: realistic looking white boxes (Mac OS only). Free for personal use.

Free Icons For Web

iPod Shuffle (FastIcon): iPod Shuffle Dock, iPod shuffle headphone. You can find a dozen of further icon sets on Fasticon.com.

Free Icons For Web

Iconshock’s Icon Sets (7 icon sets) include Consoles Vista icons, Red Hot Chili Icons, Elm Nightmare Street Icons, NBA Web Icons, Disk Jockey Icons, Filming Vista icons and more.

Free Icons For Web

Free Icons For Web

RSS Feed (Fasticon): designed in 3D-look.

Free Icons For Web

Adobe CS 3 Icon Pack: nine 256×256 png icons

Free Icons For Web

mAqua ChronoSync: free for personal use only.

Free Icons For Web

Aqua Neue (Graphite): 86 icons, a new set of system replacement icons in Aqua style.

Free Icons For Web

The iconset below includes 94 pieces and was designed by the graphic artist Jonas Rask from Denmark. The 32×32-icons can be downloaded in a .zip-archive as .ico, .png, .tiff, Mac Icons and Pixadex iContainer. These fancy and professional icons (some are certainly looking familar) can be used on commercial web-sites without any charge. You’ll find the download-link at the bottom of Jonas’ startpage. His download-page may present some other icon treasures – but in this case for private use only.

Free Icons For Web

Feedicons is a 34-part iconset from Zeus Box Studio. You might be willing to use them to give your “subscribe to RSS-feed”-button a fresh look.These icons are, besides some inept exceptions, variations of the well-known original, which makes sense. You may download them in a 32*32 and 16*16 format as .png (.zip-archive). Released under the Creative Commons License.

Free Icons For Web

Web 2 Social Bookmarks: 12 FastIcon-freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks for use in blogs, websites, on desktop and software. The Content: Blinklist, BlogMarks, Delicious, Digg, Feeds, Flickr, Furl, Magnolia, Newsvine, Reddit, Stumbleupon, Technorati. The Linux version includes .png files sized from 512×512 to 16×16 pixels.

Free Icons For Web

Emoticon: 14 smileys-icons.

Free Icons For Web

104 standard PC keyboard key icons: useful for video training projects.

Free Icons For Web

Circle Feeds (FastIcon): 4 variations of Feeds Icon in circle shape, for Linux, Mac OS and Windows.

Free Icons For Web

Further references
  • PixelGirl Icon Sets
    467 icon sets for Mac OS X and 164 icon sets for Windows XP.
  • IconKits Free Delivery
    As a Iconkits.com member you get access to the ForFree section with free stock icons you can use in both personal and commercial projects. When you sign up you will receive 2 points which means you can download 2 optional icon kits in the ForFree section.
  • Icon Bee
    Collects gorgeous free icons. RSS feed is also available.
  • Vistaicons.com
    is a collection of free Vista Style icon sets of over 2000 high quality icons in png and ico format.
  • Simple System and Windows Icons: 84 + 65 freeware “desktop” icons.
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  • InterfaceLift Icons
    Literally thousands of icons sets – for free downoad for Mac OS, Linux and Windows.
  • Free Icons Pack
    A collection of free icons collected from public domain resources. Available for free download as a .zip-file.

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