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We love high-quality freebies. Over the last years we’ve featured a number of designers and developers who released their work for free — among other things we presented high-quality free fonts, free Wordpress themes, free wallpapers and, of course, free icons.

Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place which is why we support designers and challenge them to release something for free in order to be featured on Smashing Magazine. And the results are quite often pretty impressive.

Rss in Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS/Feed Icons

Today we are glad to release a free RSS/Feed icon set. The set contains 8 icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free. The icons are available for both Mac and Win-users in resolutions 16×16px, 24×24px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 128×128px, 256×256px and 512×512px.

This icon set was designed by Dirceu Veiga from Brazil especially for Smashing Magazine as a gift for its readers.

Download RSS/Feed Icons For Free!

You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free. However, please take a closer look at the license agreement — e.g. it’s forbidden to sell the icons and in order to use them, the designer asks for a backlink.

Feeds in Fresh, Free and Gorgeous RSS/Feed Icons

Motivation behind the design

Dirceu Veiga is the creative mind behind FastIcon. We’ve featured Dirceu’s icons in our previous posts and we’ve asked him to design a creative, funny and beautiful icon set for our readers. He agreed. Here are some insights from the designer himself:

Who has something to say naturally wants to be heard and in the Web the feed icon is one of the most important instruments to keep readers’ focus on what we are saying. But, does a feed really matter if no one subscribes to it? Right here lies the challenge for designers: how do you attract more subscribers for your feed?

Trying to help to solve that dilemma I decided to create more illustrative and flashy feed icons. FastIcon’s Smashing Feeds Set with 8 attractive icons certainty won’t pass unperceived in your site or weblog.

No, I’m not ignoring the several years of the effort of web-communities to establish the standard feed icon. And respecting that whole hard work I had the concern of maintaining the orange as a dominant color. Apart from orange, the most frequent color used in the set is gray, a neutral color. Thus I strongly believe that the icons will be as easily recognizable as standard feed icons.

I hope you’ll enjoy those icons.

Dirceu Veiga

Thank you, Dirceu!

Please notice: we’re regularly looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.

Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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  1. 1
    Sebastian Kessler
    April 1st, 2008 7:54 am

    thanks a lot, already used th cup of rss in my blog:

  2. 2
    Chris
    April 1st, 2008 7:55 am

    Wow, I must admit those are some great icons. But I still have to wonder if they’ll effectively scale to 16×16px.

  3. 3
    Dave Bowker
    April 1st, 2008 8:20 am

    Very nice. I’m trying to find the April fools in this post! :P

  4. 4
    Matthias Mees
    April 1st, 2008 8:25 am

    I have to admit I don’t really see the other three icons transferring the idea of RSS, but, boy, do I love the little guy reading the RSS paper. Excellent work.

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    Going Like Sixty
    April 1st, 2008 8:31 am

    Damn. I’m just having a ball using the stuff you have offered. Even though it doesn’t fit my design – I used it anyway! I know. I know. But that’s the advantage we un-designers have over designers.

    I’m still on the hunt for Steampunk icons. hint. hint.

  6. 6
    leszek pietrzak
    April 1st, 2008 9:02 am

    This little guy reading the paper – awesome idea :-)

  7. 7
    Libor Fikr
    April 1st, 2008 9:04 am

    Beautiful icons. Excelent work, boys.

  8. 8
    martha
    April 1st, 2008 9:51 am

    Very cool indeed!

  9. 9
    Mrs. Micah
    April 1st, 2008 9:58 am

    I love it. The guy with the paper in particular, but they’re all good.

  10. 10
    Jason
    April 1st, 2008 10:33 am

    The guy reading the paper looks like he’s sitting on the toilet.

  11. 11
    ArtGDen
    April 1st, 2008 12:22 pm

    Cool & Nice icons))) Thanks…))))

  12. 12
    Shaun
    April 1st, 2008 12:55 pm

    I’m using the mug of RSS icon on my blog. Thanks again Smashing Magazine!

  13. 13
    Andrew Cornett
    April 1st, 2008 1:24 pm

    Thanks for the nice icons!

  14. 14
    GermanDesigner
    April 1st, 2008 1:32 pm

    Nice, if anyone have more: please mail to me: blametome1@gmx.de

  15. 15
    Eli
    April 1st, 2008 7:28 pm

    I love the billboard one! When I find a use I’ll definitely try that one :)

  16. 16
    Shane
    April 1st, 2008 11:53 pm

    Nice collection – thanks for posting.

  17. 17
    One Winged Angel
    April 2nd, 2008 12:53 am

    Very cute!! :D

  18. 18
    prasun
    April 2nd, 2008 1:50 am

    good job. i like it.

  19. 19
    Zeb
    April 2nd, 2008 1:57 am

    Awesome icons, I love !

  20. 20
    Gary
    April 2nd, 2008 3:25 am

    I agree to that.

  21. 21
    David
    April 2nd, 2008 4:33 am

    Amazing Icon Set! I especially like the RSS Newspaper ;)

  22. 22
    Kathi
    April 2nd, 2008 5:16 am

    Great stuff!

  23. 23
    Tyler @ Building Camelot
    April 2nd, 2008 12:12 pm

    Love the coffee cup! Thanks for the links

  24. 24
    Joefrey Mahusay
    April 2nd, 2008 6:59 pm

    Really nice RSS icons

  25. 25
    Some Girl
    April 2nd, 2008 8:04 pm

    using the coffee cup. thanks for sharing!

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    Jack Keller
    April 3rd, 2008 9:57 pm

    Hello, I’m a Jack, and my spin on the RSS icon is a love/hate thing, these new icons are awesome to the artistic side of my brain. However to break too far from the norm may not be as helpful for sites that aren’t already well traveled. My reason is this, the orange icon is, well, an Icon to RSS lifestyle, people who aren’t even Internet savvy can understand that it gives them updates to that sites news or articles. To differentiate from that format could be harmful to new sites or startups, remember that standards are not just for code, an iconic symbol as important as a feed cannot just be tossed around willy nilly.

    And please don’t think that I’m bashing your article, I’m not. I love Smashing Magazine and these new feed icon alternatives are “HOTT” as the kids say, just wanted to get a point out. Keep up the good work!

  27. 27
    VTFootballGrad
    April 4th, 2008 7:25 am

    These icons are sweet.

  28. 28
    Naseer Ahmad Mughal
    April 5th, 2008 1:17 am

    Thanks for these buttons.

  29. 29
    MaFiAMaX
    April 5th, 2008 2:52 am

    Thanks guys, i have started use Newspaper_Feed_128×128 icon.

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    wembley
    April 6th, 2008 11:36 pm

    these ARE awsome… and you are even kind enough to provide rationale for creating them. they bring some real life concepts into rss. we are not for processing text only. :) thanks, hope i will have a great place to use one of them.

  31. 31
    Mekz.net
    April 8th, 2008 3:28 am

    These icon are looking very fresh and nice

  32. 32
    Martin
    April 9th, 2008 1:57 am

    Yeah nice. Check http://www.farbwolke.de we use the newspaper icon

  33. 33
    Fipo
    April 10th, 2008 3:46 am

    great icons.
    I put one here – [silvy's diary blog]

    thanks !

  34. 34
    babak zawari
    April 11th, 2008 11:28 am

    These icon are looking very fresh and nice
    babak zawari
    بابك زواري

  35. 35
    Gunktra Bali
    April 14th, 2008 5:27 pm

    very nice man..

  36. 36
    Richard McLaughlin
    April 20th, 2008 1:27 am

    Love the coffee cup, gave me an idea because I have this special blue cup that shines (bad for my ADD) and I decided to take a picture of that cup and use if for my RSS feed. Now any ADD person, like me, that lands on my site will just go “….Ooooo, shiny.” And sign up not knowing why.

    Great work, keep it rolling.

  37. 37
    philfrelanceweb
    April 24th, 2008 2:29 am

    such a great collection of rss icon, i found this very much helpful for most web designers and very useful in web design project, i will work used this for my future projects.

  38. 38
    benrulz
    May 15th, 2008 7:58 am

    Hey cool icons…. great concepts and the idea is awesome…. great job….
    thnks smash…!!

  39. 39
    leo
    May 21st, 2008 10:37 pm

    all gugs like the newspaper guy most!

  40. 40
    Massimiliano
    May 22nd, 2008 11:08 pm

    Very Good, thanks

  41. 41
    jojo
    May 24th, 2008 10:07 pm

    I just want to asked how to install this rrs icon…. Pls help us

  42. 42
    MMA Overload
    June 3rd, 2008 11:18 am

    We used the RSS Bench icon on our MMA Blog. Thanks!

  43. 43
    mr. cat
    June 15th, 2008 7:40 pm

    Hi man you are so great !!!! Orz …

  44. 44
    Sufiyan
    July 1st, 2008 3:55 am

    your designs are awesome dude, thanks

  45. 45
    Martijn
    July 13th, 2008 12:13 pm

    I like te billboard style i gona use it on my new site.

  46. 46
    Adam Sicinski
    July 18th, 2008 10:42 pm

    Thank you. These are very creative. I will use one of them on my blog :)

  47. 47
    Rajeev Verma
    July 30th, 2008 8:06 am

    Loved all icons. Better as they are free 2. :-) thanx

  48. 48
    emfajar
    August 2nd, 2008 11:03 pm

    thank for these nice icon.. excelent work :D

  49. 49
    Samardeep
    August 7th, 2008 9:00 pm

    Wonderful Icons!!

  50. 50
    Tobias
    August 24th, 2008 3:41 am

    Nice, i also integrated them in my Blog

  51. 51
    sepideh
    August 24th, 2008 9:54 pm

    hi,thanks for these icon.very nice

  52. 52
    trcwest
    August 31st, 2008 4:37 am

    beautifull…. really like these. so much so that i just cant see why i should create my own

  53. 53
    karuna
    September 17th, 2008 1:08 pm

    i saw these icons on a few other blogs, and sat down to search for them. at last i found them. great job. this is really cool

  54. 54
    Akhmad Guntar
    September 24th, 2008 6:57 pm

    Very good icon. Thank you very much for sharing. Very much appreciated :-)

  55. 55
    W.T
    October 4th, 2008 3:01 pm

    I was trying to put the RSS feed onto my blog, but when I downloaded into my Plugin list, it did not show up. Is there a way you could explain exactly what should be done to use the designed feed? thanks ahead of time.

  56. 56
    Evan's Mom
    October 14th, 2008 9:57 am

    I’ve seen some blogs using the newspaper icon, now I found the source. Great, I’ll use it. I like the cup also. Thanks a lot.

  57. 57
    sentaku
    November 11th, 2008 6:50 am

    Thank you for the beautiful icons!

  58. 58
    Dutch
    November 21st, 2008 6:56 am

    I have been looking for rss icons for about a week, and right before i gave up on my search I found the mother of them all. The dude with the paper is amazing. thanks

  59. 59
    Ahmed
    November 26th, 2008 12:42 am

    Wow..
    nice rss icon
    thank you

  60. 60
    denbagus
    November 27th, 2008 1:19 am

    beautiful rss icon…thank for your information

  61. 61
    Bryan Karl
    January 3rd, 2009 5:56 am

    I love it! Thanks!

  62. 62
    Hanna
    January 13th, 2009 9:01 am

    Thx for sharing. Great job!

  63. 63
    Biju Subhash
    January 16th, 2009 1:27 am

    Thank you for sharing :D

    Biju Subhash

  64. 64
    Distara
    February 4th, 2009 8:18 am

    Thanks … hopefully after many pairs of fun together … and any posts that many subscriptions.

  65. 65
    Jacob Lee
    March 8th, 2009 5:17 pm

    You’ve stated

    “The set contains 8 icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free”

    Yet there included license states that icons are free only for personal, desktop use?

    Am i right to be a little confused?

  66. 66
    idan smith
    March 16th, 2009 1:04 pm

    thank you! =]

  67. 67
    needy
    April 15th, 2009 1:14 am

    Nice Ones. Thanks a lot.

  68. 68
    elisa
    April 16th, 2009 9:32 am

    Jacob Lee is right; the license in the pack says we can use the icons for personal, desktop use. So we can not publish them in web sites. Maybe the license was included by mistake, I don’t know… :/

  69. 69
    vmen
    April 21st, 2009 7:55 pm

    Thanks for beautiful icons.

  70. 70
    winD
    April 22nd, 2009 10:45 pm

    really funny and cute icon! i put for my web,the newspaper one. thank you.

  71. 71
    Evan
    June 6th, 2009 6:53 am

    I wanted to use one of these icons to replace the regular feedburner one, but I don’t know how to install it. Can anyone please help?
    Thanks!

    Ev

  72. 72
    Brian
    June 6th, 2009 2:57 pm

    I am also confused.

    It says that these can be used for free in personal sites and ALSO in COMMERCIAL SITES.

    However, when I VISIT http://www.fasticon.com/ site.. it says that to be used in commercial sites, you must use a LICENSE and that the icons are only for personal sites…

    CAN ANYONE tell the definite license terms?

    Thanks.

  73. 73
    Brian
    June 6th, 2009 2:59 pm

    In the comment above, I mean that FastIcon site, says that you must buy a license to use these icons in COMMERCIAL sites… and the icons are only for personal use…

    What is the truth??

  74. 74
    Backlink
    June 22nd, 2009 5:35 am

    ooh thanks a lot for the tips?
    thank’s for the good post?!!!

    yes cemlouis i just notice the notification there..either i missed that
    part when i upload the theme or they just recently updated their site and also make it more clear about their theme submit policy.
    but still is there anyway they can prevent anyone uploading someone
    else theme..that’s still the biggest question need to be solved. I know if i release a standalone theme with my own footer link without sponsor links..i would be glad to submit the theme there and they can add the extra links in the theme since the they got a very potential click download rate and that’s without a doubt since i did feature their site for great theme place but there’s still sponsors issue that need to explained if the sponsors suddenly asked about the extra link..what should i tell them?

  75. 75
    17mad
    July 11th, 2009 7:38 pm

    thx,very good!

  76. 76
    tech4eleven
    July 19th, 2009 1:12 pm

    love love love these. thanks

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    [http://ansblog.com/wallpapers]Nits[/url]
    September 3rd, 2009 12:51 am

    Incredible icons great help for the blogger thanks

  78. 78
    web tasarımı
    October 1st, 2009 7:41 am

    special icons… thanks..web tasarımı

  79. 79
    SEO rab
    October 2nd, 2009 7:53 am

    Cool and Nice icons
    Thanks

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    james povolotski
    October 14th, 2009 10:56 pm

    wow man!u have done an amazing job,ill surely gonna use it in my blog :p.please also visit my website for
    3d,graphic design jobs,models,portfolio and more.

  81. 81
    Helge-Kristoffer
    October 18th, 2009 10:32 am

    Thanks alot! Love’em!

  82. 82
    Christian
    October 19th, 2009 12:15 pm

    Thank you very much for these cool Icons :) Catched one =)

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