Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates
Visual design elements can considerably improve the readability of the page. Using them, you can make it easier for your users to scan the presented content and find the information they’re actually looking for. Icons can draw reader’s attention to the key aspects of the article and visualize the topic of the post. Buttons can be used to motivate users to some particular actions; and templates are supposed to help designers to create user-friendly interface elements right away. And whatever aim you’d like to achieve, free visual design elements are always useful – simply because they can give your text content a better visual appearance.
We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them.
Not all listed freebies can be used for commercial projects, however you can use all of them in your private projects of for you personal purposes. Please read the disclaimers carefully before using icons – they’re changing from time to time.
You can also scan through the icons-related articles we’ve published before:
General Icon Sets
1. Notes Icons
2. iMac Icons from FreeIconsWeb.com
3. Pixel Press Icons (.dmg, Mac only)
4. Vista Icons (for private purposes only, 2000 icons, 256×256, .png).
5. Desktop Icons (for private purposes only, icon sets are available for PC and Mac).
7. Iconfactory Freeware Icon Sets
9. Toolbar Icons by Matt Ball
10. Crystal Clear
11. Office Icons
13. Deziner Folio (32 Aqua-icons, transparent, 128×128, .png). Can be used for both commercial and private projects. You can also request .psd-files via e-mail.
Icon Sets for Design Artists
14. Vector Graphics templates, available for free download. Punk Collection, Urban Collection, Resources Collection I und Resources Collection II. Formats are .ai and .eps.
14. Bittbox offers vector graphics for professional design: e.g. 35 Free Abstract Illustrator Brushes.
15. 25 Free Vector Drips, Drops, and Splatters. Besides: Free Vector Grunge Set. Both are available in Adobe Illustrator format or as .eps-files.
Icon Sets for Bloggers
16. Icon-Set for Bloggers by Sonia Anepeta.
17. Web 2.0 Icons by Utombox.
18. 77 Vectorbuttons by Go Squared. For Adobe Illustrator only. Besides: 165 Vector Icons and even more icons for private and commercial use.
19. Web 2.0 Date Icons For Your Blog. Layouts for Adobe Photoshop (.psd) ans as .png-files.
A mini-tutorial on how to use icons is also available. The result might look like this:
20. 9 Web 2.0 Badges. Available as .png or .psd.
If you are looking for even more elegant templates, you might be willing to take a look at Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) package. You’ll need Adobe Illustrator
or Inkscape (Open-Source) to edit the images. What you’ll get out of it, might look like this:
21. Bitbox offers free glossy design layouts, which can be used in Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. Among them: Vector Badges, Glass Buttons and Bars, Web Page Elements, Header Designs and RSS-Icons.
Bittbox also gives away various Adobe Illustrator-templates for modern web design. Among them Buttons, Badges, RSS-Icons, Ecken and numerous Icons.
Not Enough? Even More Icons!
- Giøn is an icon set designed by Silvestre Herrea (Argentina). The icon set (1.3 Mb) includes icons in 16*16px, 22*22px and 24*24px, in .png and as open source. The collection isn’t complete yet.
- Mouserunner Icon Set (12 icons). Rounded icons in various sizes in .png and .ico-formats.
- Free Tiny Small Mini Icons Bullets: the icons are indeed as tiny as they can possibly be. For different purposes, and free for commercial use.
- Tango Icon Gallery: hundreds of icons in different sizes.
References to Icon Collections
- Iconfactory Freeware Icon Sets (literally hundreds of freeware icon sets)
- Wikipedia: Icons – a regularly updated list of references to various icon collections.
- FreeIconsWeb (dozens of free icon sets)
- Iconbuffet delivers free icon sets on a regular basis. Registration is required.
- IconFinder is an icon search engine. Currently offline.
- Free! Icons for your website or application (31 icon sets)
- 22 Free 16×16 Icon Sets
Natasha
January 22nd, 2008 9:32 amAwesome collection. Thank you!
Narielis Giselle
February 27th, 2010 2:32 pmThis comment was deleted due to offtopic.
Nakış işleme
February 13th, 2008 9:01 amThanks
Ken Saunders
February 18th, 2008 1:25 amThanks for listing the icons from http://mouserunner.com/Spheres_Icons_Index.html. I’m flattered to be amongst such an awesome collection. That particular set is called ColorCons and there are actually 49 different icons in ColorCons and in 4 different colors.
Linga Reddy
February 27th, 2008 11:43 pmAbsolutly awsome very good collection
Linga Reddy
February 27th, 2008 11:43 pmAbsolutly awesome very good collection
hb
March 7th, 2008 1:48 amAmazing sets… a really great collection!
John
March 7th, 2008 5:52 amThanks very much for this awesome compilation. :-)
Dhara M Ali
April 8th, 2008 4:25 amamazing, this site is reduce our work…..!!!!!!!
great work buddy,
rebelian
April 8th, 2008 7:16 pmnice to see
Scott
April 12th, 2008 3:37 pmGood stuff!
Mike
April 15th, 2008 5:33 amI usually get all my icons from iconzworld.com but this thread has quite a bit of good ones too!
Marcello
April 16th, 2008 11:32 pmGreat work!
s4motny
May 8th, 2008 12:10 pmvery good links thanks a lot for them
shiv
June 26th, 2008 1:59 amgreat resourcess. my search ends here. thanks
Rizwan
August 21st, 2008 12:36 amDownload web 2.0 style Media Player Vector Based Icons Free!. http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2008/08/07/web-20-style-media-player-icons-download-free/
YouLee
August 27th, 2008 6:46 amNice collection :) Thanks for sharing! Thought it would be useful to continue this collection with non-standard free icon set for bloggers in the form of bottles.
lighting
September 26th, 2008 2:02 amThere is also an excellection icon search engine at VeryIcon.com, it has the most powerful search function and the largest icon database that contents 20000+ icons.
Abe On Tech
October 14th, 2008 3:52 amGreat post. Thanks for sharing!
I have been using a few of the buttons on my tech blog ;)
revathi
October 14th, 2008 12:12 pmThanks a lot
ThomasP
October 21st, 2008 5:30 amGreat list, thx. I have a few icons already in use. I’ll link this post on my blog, totally worth it!
tweakwindows
November 5th, 2008 8:28 amI will use these icons to revamp my blog
robert
November 14th, 2008 9:20 pmi think this article is quite keen.
carlos mora
November 18th, 2008 10:10 ami love very much i thank you very very much
Sukanta Roy
November 21st, 2008 10:38 pmvery Nice icons i love it
Keturah
December 20th, 2008 1:55 pmOh boy dis is lovely
Rahul
December 30th, 2008 5:23 amAmazing list … as usual! Thank you!
Jimba Design
January 10th, 2009 7:09 amNice job!….thank-x
Vazio
February 5th, 2009 9:48 amUMI.CMS icons is not a free.
This icons copyright Umisoft company
Sanbor
February 21st, 2009 5:14 amAbsolute awasome. Really nice and fine collection. Thanks a lot guys!
Mirco
February 26th, 2009 1:24 amRellay nice work! Simpel and Clear
icon search engine
April 6th, 2009 6:00 pmThe best icon search engine I ever used is IconSeeker.com, it contents 10000+ high quality free icons.
johnweblink
April 9th, 2009 4:50 amThanks for this collection…. especially icons
Toystore
May 4th, 2009 4:40 pmThank
Chao
May 27th, 2009 3:12 pmWow, thanks for all the resource! Also you might want to check out these:
http://www.logobee.com/press53.htm
http://www.logobee.com/press51.htm
There are nice templates of shiny orbs and squares, you may find them useful.
Kent
June 2nd, 2009 8:05 amThank you so much
shoaib
July 13th, 2009 7:50 amhow many childrens of profit muhammad (p b u h)
FFF
August 4th, 2009 8:10 amBuena coleccion de iconos, Gracias!!!!
Anand
August 30th, 2009 10:24 pmhay…..it’s really good man
thank you…….. thank you very much (especially icons)
Anand
Martin
October 6th, 2009 11:49 pmMuy buenos
martin
January 8th, 2011 5:59 amhay…… friend
Neo
October 16th, 2009 2:45 pmGreat Job.. Just what i was looking for my site. Take a look at Best of this web
farhan
October 20th, 2009 1:49 ami like your site there is every icon avail now i don’t need to serach on google thank u very much
koye
October 29th, 2009 5:30 amThank…..I Like ……
Vinod
November 1st, 2009 2:04 amGr8 work……
Lala
November 15th, 2009 3:55 amExcellent resources Thank you for taking the time to post all of these.
It’s very useful for my blog
avatarlover
February 14th, 2010 7:26 amwow.
that is so coollllllllll…..
i love it..
thanks! :)
Aravind
February 23rd, 2010 11:32 pmnice collections…..thanks…..
Ritwika Ghosh Bhattacharya
June 1st, 2010 10:15 pmthanks for sharing these freebies
Artist
September 8th, 2010 7:17 amGood collection for developments. Thanks
Alos I use this Icons packs
A.J.
September 20th, 2010 8:49 pmToo cool……..
Valikonen
December 16th, 2010 5:49 amVery cool collection, thanks. If you want to see menus, web site trends, galleries etc, visit 1artmedia.com , you have online demo and free download. Bye!
parisa
March 11th, 2011 9:25 amthese are very artistic and very nice
Ranjit
April 28th, 2011 5:40 amVery useful for me.. Thanks to SM…
Chelsea
February 25th, 2012 2:47 pmHi,
Thanks so much for uploading this post. However, the office themed set has no link. Do you have one you could share?
Thanks,
Chelsea
DIXITA
March 15th, 2012 11:23 amu r best
Sever
March 27th, 2012 10:14 pmWow, Thank you for this icon set. I downloaded. Can I ask you one thing. I am going to crtaee a new site. I need a set of stylish icons. I searched web and found nothing useful. Do you know any site that gives free download of nice icons. If you know can you please share it here. It will be a great help for me.