35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
When it comes to icons, web designers and graphic artists have an excellent opportunity to showcase their craft, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A sweet, nice icon set is a perfect showcase of designer’s work and a powerful instrument to build up your reputation online.
In fact, designers make use of it, creating absolutely amazing icon sets and offering them for free download. The result: hundreds and hundreds of sets available almost everywhere, usually not that well executed and often duplicated from other sets. However, there are indeed free high-quality icon sets. And this post is supposed to prove exactly that.
Below we present 35 incredible free icon sets which you can use for your web designs or your desktop to spice up your posts with some nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons. Some of the listed icons can be used in web designs, some of them are supposed to be primarily for desktop. So hopefully everybody will find something useful.
You might want to take a look at the following articles we’ve presented earlier:
- 20 Free And Fresh Icon Sets
- Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designs,
- Freebies Round-Up: Icons and Templates
- 50 Most Beautiful Icon Sets Created in 2008 (Noupe)
Please notice: 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 the icons – they’re changing from time to time.
Free Icons For Your Web Designs
Bagg & Box Telecharger Icon Pack
70 high-quality free icons released under a Creative Commons license. You can use them as illustrations for your posts or as buttons on your weblog.
Mammoth Icons
4 freeware icons inspired by prehistoric Mammoths. They might fit perfectly to spice up your blog with some pretty funny character.
Dino Icons
6 freeware icons of cute dinosaurs and cavemen.
Cemagraphics Icons
Includes .png and .ico in sizes 512px, 256px, 128px, 64px and 32px.
Wifun Icons
Website navigation icons.
City Icons
The City icon pack contains 16 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Hollywood Ticket icon, Umbrella icon, Hot Dog Car icon, Mail icon, Bench icon and more.
Irish Icon Pack
26 Irish icons which you can use to brighten up your blog with some unique and beautiful icons.
Simpsons Mail Icons
The Simpsons: 7 512 × 512px .png and .ico icons.
Free Web Applications Icon Set
There are 20 icons designed specially for web applications (e.g. Charts, Profile, Search, Add, Delete, Email, Print, Warning and etc…). Icons come in 3 sizes; 48×48 px, 32×32 px, and 24×24 px. All of them are in PNG format with transparent background. Web Application Icons Set is completely Free for both personal and commercial projects in any way you like.
Knob Buttons Toolbar Icons
These are 39 icons in PNG, ICNS, TIFF and ICO formats, Mac and Windows compatible, 32×32 pixels dimensions only. You are free to use these icons on your software application or website.
Monofactor Free Vector Icon Set
The first part of the set contains 25 scalable Illustrator format icons. You can open the .ai file with any version of Illustrator above 8.0. With earlier versions, you might loose some of the effects on the icons.
Polaroid Icon
512×512px .PNG.
TV Icon
Perfect for an occasional blog post related to TV.
Sticky Pack
38 icons, 128×128, png, psd.
Feedicons 2
33 impressive RSS-feed icons. Released under the Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works.
Users Icon Set
11 user icons with functions like add, chat, edit, offline, remove, send, upload, user, user group, video chat, voice chat.
RSS-icons
9 icons.
PI Diagona Pack
400 (200+200) icons are included in PNG format.
Free Icons For Your Desktop & Dock Icons
Niome Icon Pack
This pack contains 90 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Disc Icons, File Icons, Folder Icons, Hardware Icons, Network Icons, Other Icons, Start Menu Icons, Symbol Icons and more.
iVista Icon Pack 2
This pack 2 contains 92 (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: Alarm Icons, CDs & DVDs Icons, Devices Icons, Files Icons, Folder Icons, Network Icons, Other Icons, Start Menu Icons and more.
Flat Panel Monitor Icon
128px desktop & application icon. Don’t forget to check out the PDP Panel Icon.
Green Icon set
9 icons.
Onibari + Onibari Light Icon Packs
Two sets of desktop icons released under a Creative Commons license. More icons.
iMac Icon
The package includes both PNG & ICO format.
Vista Aero Pack
135 full sized Windows Vista icons, in large .png formats for free. Our 256×256 PNG images rival most sites that give you only small ICO files that can not be used for other things than icons.
Simplistica
The set includes useful application and web icons which come in the sizes 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format. PSD’s are included as well.
Simplexity File Icons
Includes 120 different file extension icons in both png and icon format (31mb). All major file extensions are included.
Black Pearl
39 black pearl file pngs, containing almost all popular file formats. All pngs in 256 × 256px. Not for commercial use.
Adobe Work Folders
.PNG format and vary in ranges from 256, 128, 96, 64, 32 & 16 pixels, .ICO (win) format and vary in ranges from 256, 128, 96, 64, 32 & 16 pixels, al in 32 & 24 bit color, .ICNS (mac) format and vary in ranges from 128, 96, 64, 32 & 16 pixels in 24 bit color (*.icl format library included for Windows)
HP Dock Icon Set
1024px, 512px, 256px. All file types are .PNG.
Further Resources
- More Excellent Freebies
Over 90 icon sets, collected on a one single page. - Iconbulk
- Iconsfree.org
desktop icons
March 6th, 2010 10:12 pmvery very attractive icons sets.i m a icon lover already having very large collections different different icons.really these unique set will increase popularity of my collection.
icons for vista
Filmberichte
March 8th, 2010 10:51 amVery nice. Thank you for sharing.
Sushie
March 17th, 2010 10:21 amVery beautful icon sets, thanks!
tolis
March 26th, 2010 7:29 amVery nice collection. I would like to add mine too
Eddie
March 26th, 2010 8:55 amDo you, by any chance, have a cool free icon with a breast? If yes, I would be delighted if you coud mail me…
Thanks!
james lee
April 16th, 2010 11:17 amThese are definitely some great icons. These are great to use on my website. Thanks for sharing these icons.
hi
April 28th, 2010 1:03 amvery nice
Sven
May 7th, 2010 3:46 amVery beautiful Icon Sets, thank you
Jamie Watmough
June 3rd, 2010 10:51 pmNice set of free icons – thanks for the share!
My all time fav icon sites are:
* http://www.iconspedia.com
* http://www.juicyicons.com
* http://www.iconarchive.com
* http://www.iconfinder.com
Camp fire ring
June 16th, 2010 4:43 pmFabulous icons!!i like it very much…
thanks for posting!
camp fire
Fire pits tables
June 16th, 2010 4:59 pmI like it very much..Spc. the elephants one theyre so cute!
fire pit
Aumit
June 17th, 2010 10:55 amvery nice worksssssss……
Aaknksha
June 24th, 2010 2:26 amexcellent work
Jason Lenker
June 24th, 2010 11:53 amGreat sets. Have need… will use.
Tess
June 30th, 2010 4:17 amGreat collection of icons. Makes it hard to decide which ones to use even if we have hundreds of folders ;) I liked the cinema tickets, pretty original and unique.
Thanks for sharing.
Tariq H.
June 30th, 2010 3:03 pmThank you for this great efforts, It helps me a lot, just to be honest with you you saved alot of my time,
Thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssss again :)
javad
July 5th, 2010 6:02 pmvery very thanks.
Cengo
July 7th, 2010 11:09 pmthanks very good job………
mahdi keyvanlu
July 18th, 2010 11:18 amevery one can help to the other people and you do it very well.
i say thank you very much behalf all Iranian people
Joe
July 20th, 2010 9:37 pmCool Icons… Found a cool icon set at http://www.iconpot.com as well.
relicaexpo
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Brad
August 15th, 2010 3:07 pmDamn, these are very nice, great post.
Just found these:
http://www.styleprone.com/free-web-icons
Not too shabby for a free set.
Aruna
September 18th, 2010 6:55 amWow……….
That ‘s fine and great, beautiful collection
thanx……
Tamil
September 24th, 2010 5:12 amAs always a great collection, thanks!
Past icon collections have been a great help adding that little zing to our applications, these ones appear no different. I especially like the versions of the Apple Mail icons.
Tom
September 24th, 2010 8:51 amI like this collection very much. It is so exciting!
Great job! perfect!
Till @ iTanum
October 23rd, 2010 3:00 pmThe icon set was posted here 2 years ago but I still find good. Thanks for this inspiration and great work.
Rich Griese
December 1st, 2010 6:19 amI am always amazed how poorly the free icon sets are thought out. Almost NONE of them include a twitter icon, I mean… Twitter has been around how long? you would think someone would make a icon set that includes a twitter icon in the mix. In fact, I would argue that a web icon set it completely worthless if it does not include such an icon. Someone should send a memo to the next international meeting of icon makers.
Cheers! RichGriese@gmail.com
John
December 3rd, 2010 2:34 pmThanks. No very much of free icons that are out there. These are nice too. Mahalo.
Pedant
December 8th, 2010 8:49 amMost of these aren’t really icons … they’re illustrations.
Pedantic maybe … but the super-detailed illustrations are not ‘iconographic’, they’re complex depictions.
Nisha Shah
January 26th, 2011 9:50 pmAwesome Collection.
oem store
March 2nd, 2011 2:56 pmI do not even know with strong you blog greatly that helped me! Thank you
Sergio Palma Hidalgo
March 2nd, 2011 5:07 pmCool! really great stuff! awesome!
Tilikar
April 30th, 2011 7:49 amThanks .. great collection
Dan
May 3rd, 2011 7:40 amThanks a lot for the Collection
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Ricardo
July 5th, 2011 3:29 amThanks for sharing!!!
RolFic
July 11th, 2011 2:46 amThank you for this great collection!
Philipp
September 13th, 2011 1:38 amLooks like the Link to the Polaroid Icon is broken. :-(
aarkay
September 18th, 2011 4:58 pmExcellent Icons collection. Can i download these icons for free.
aarkay
Jay
September 19th, 2011 11:34 amI’m really over these lists that say “free” when in reality half the stuff requires a paid license or other creative commons restrictions.
Alex Avion
September 21st, 2011 10:01 pmWow. I never see so beautiful icons. I am in search for some beautiful icons for my site and I gonna use them.
Minasai
September 23rd, 2011 3:53 amthanks!! thats very very cool !!
Sasha
October 19th, 2011 12:32 amthx for sharing such beautiful icons! )))) I liked this icons too desktop-icon.com/stock-icons/desktop-buffet-icons.htm
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Iim
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obama
December 13th, 2011 7:16 am(Really) stupid icon set
kyle
February 16th, 2012 4:48 pmHi,
Great… as you said above, these are high-quality icons indeed, thank you. Another website where I found a lot of free high-quality assets is creattor.com. You should take a look there, too.
Dmitry
March 1st, 2013 7:10 amHello, How to submit icons to you?
Santz
March 26th, 2013 6:21 pmNice!!
Robert Connor
April 23rd, 2013 10:06 pmThanks for the icons sets they are awesome!