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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.

[Offtopic: by the way, did you already get your copy of the brand new Smashing Book?]

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.