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Fresh Freebies: Typeface, Pirates and Circular Icons
By Smashing Editorial, April 17th, 2008 in Graphics | 44 Comments | Forum
Free stuff always comes in handy. We are regularly hunting for free high-quality icons, fonts, wallpapers, plugins and scripts and present them to you, so you don’t need to search for them. As long as we find something beautiful, interesting or useful, we let you know in our posts. And now it’s time for some sweet freebies for designer’s toolbox.
Below you’ll find an excellent free font and some recently released icon sets. They all are released for free; however, please take a look at license agreements before using them in commercial applications.
You can also take a look at our previous article
- Friday Freebies: Font, Icons and Wallpapers which presents a high-quality font, high-resolution wallpapers and icons as well as a free WordPress admin theme.
Freebies: Typeface and Icons
Free Typeface Jura
Jura is a distinctive yet readable serif typeface, suitable for headings and body content alike. It features 96 of the most commonly used glyphs (characters).
Pirates Icons (.zip)
Pirates icon pack, designed by Artua Design Studio especially for Smashing Magazine. The Pirates Theme for Windows desktop and any applications.
Sticker Pack (fixed link)
This collection contains 41 individual sticky icons with large resources for Vista & Leopard. Designed by David Lanham.
Circular Icons
Circular is a free icon set containing 100+ free to use icons. It’s a themed collection of 100+ 16×16 icons designed by me, Ben Gillbanks. The icons are available as a zip download of alpha transparent png’s (link over there on the right), and cost a grand total of nothing!
Care Bears
An icon pack with 5 lovely bears. Icons for Win, Mac and Linux.
Vaga Icon Set
Vaga is a set of 60 semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) from Ed Merritt - available for free download and applicable to a number of regular web application domains.
Last Click
What about some nerd’s furniture for true pixel ninjas? For instance, Pixelcouch? Royal College of Art graduate (UK) Cristian Zuzunaga has devised a fabric based on a ‘pixel’ concept, which is being produced by Danish manufacturer Kvadrat and sold through Moroso. The price is unknown yet. [via]
Nope, it’s not free, but it’s really amazing. Saitek’s new Cyborg keyboard is probably the most nerdy keyboard ever designed. It could have come straight off Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise.
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Miguel Alvarez (April 17th, 2008, 9:21 am)
The “sticket pack” link is wrong (leading to the circular icons pack). Please fix it, I’d love to have those! :)
Jeff Blaine (April 17th, 2008, 9:32 am)
That couch is hideous. Neat idea… hideous execution.
Jamie Lottering (April 17th, 2008, 9:39 am)
I REALLY want that couch
Tom (April 17th, 2008, 9:50 am)
I kind of like the couch as well.
Alex (April 17th, 2008, 10:12 am)
The couch was featured on Kanye’s blog AGES ago guys, slow slow.
Razvan (April 17th, 2008, 11:03 am)
The couch is nice but I wouldn’t want one..
Brennan (April 17th, 2008, 11:29 am)
Wow! that keyboard reminds me of the painstaking effort taken at the end of SW:Revenge of the Sith so it would ’seamlessly’ tie into episode IV… gotta love the effort!
Keep up the smashing work!
;)
Alain (April 17th, 2008, 12:16 pm)
To get the “sticker” icons simply go to the Iconfactory web site.
Heri (April 17th, 2008, 12:42 pm)
I really like the Jura typeface, it’s a very unique take on a serif font.
Tom (April 17th, 2008, 12:57 pm)
Excellent font! That couch would’ve been cool during the days of 8-bit Nintendo.
Shaun (April 17th, 2008, 2:26 pm)
I envy the owner of that couch :O
Alex Samsonas (April 17th, 2008, 5:28 pm)
that couch is great!
sikantis (April 17th, 2008, 6:36 pm)
I like this post and all comments :)!!
Wender (April 17th, 2008, 7:56 pm)
So nice !!! Link [www.seuretornogarantido.com.br]
One Winged Angel (April 17th, 2008, 10:01 pm)
I like the icons collection for today. Oh, and the couch looks promising too. :D
Braintrove.com (April 18th, 2008, 8:36 am)
Nice
danielG (April 18th, 2008, 9:16 am)
love the couch.. haha.. i’d go so far as to buy it AND sit in it on a regular basis..
Danny (April 18th, 2008, 9:45 am)
You should definitely go that far and then invite everyone over for a PIXEL PARTY!
The pixel drinks would be tough though
Ryan (April 18th, 2008, 1:52 pm)
Can I just say Care Bears. BAM! Thanks for those.
hellyeahdude.com (April 18th, 2008, 3:10 pm)
Hahaha, that pixel couch is amazing! I would love to have that with maybe some plaid wallpaper. HAHA!
rajiv (April 19th, 2008, 3:41 am)
Voted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ralph (April 19th, 2008, 9:21 am)
The pixelcouch is great :)
slartsa (April 20th, 2008, 1:44 pm)
I’m quite sure all of us haven’t read that blog, it’s not always about how fast they go…
Lachlan (April 20th, 2008, 6:17 pm)
That is the best couch ever
Blue Buffalo (April 21st, 2008, 10:40 am)
The couch is very cool. You would need to have the right decor though.
SmashingFeeds (April 22nd, 2008, 10:30 am)
cooool… nice collection
Jauhari (April 23rd, 2008, 1:42 am)
Nice Collections, I will download it
Christopher Hill (April 25th, 2008, 1:55 am)
The sticker set contains, what I would consider, copyright material. For instance the Transmission truck by Panic (http://www.panic.com/transmit/).
Janckos (March 6th, 2009, 11:21 am)
Muchas Gracias por los recursos.
John Williams (June 14th, 2009, 1:45 am)
Can someone please advise the license requirements for using the pirate icons - there is no license agreement in the .zip file?