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Friday Freebies: Font, Icons, Wallpapers and Screensaver
Free stuff always comes in handy. Particularly if it offers a high quality one would usually expect from a quite costly commercial product. The latter holds particularly when it comes to typefaces and icon packs. On the other hand, when you are looking for some excellent desktop wallpapers to spark your creativity, it’s just damn hard to find the good ones. Well, not any longer.
Below you’ll find some sweet friday freebies — a high-quality font, icons, Photoshop brushes, screensaver and wallpapers. If you have any further suggestions please don’t hesitate to share them in the comments.
You may also want to take a look at our previous articles
- Screensavers: Best Of features some beautiful, interesting and unusual screensavers for Mac OS X and Windows,
- More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers presents a fresh portion of desktop wallpapers,
- Fresh Freebies: Typeface, Pirates and Circular Icons with a free font and some recently released icon sets,
- 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?]
Free Font
Fresco (thanks, Chris Apalodimas)
Fresco Semi Bold is just one member of a large and flexible type family by Dutch design legend Fred Smeijers. OpenType. Registration is required.
Free Icons
Free eCommerce Icons
Presenting 32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file. Released under Released under GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Louie Mantia Icons
21 icon sets designed and released by a designer Louie Mantia. Versions for Candybar iContainer, Mac and Win are available in various resolutions.
Free Photoshop Brushes
Free Photoshop Brushes
Abduzeedo presents a collection of free abstract, grunge and vector Photoshop brushes created by PaulW, a graphic designer from the UK.
Free Vectors
Free Vector World Maps Collection
A collection of free vector world maps that you can use in your projects. Format: Adobe Illustrator (.ai).
Free Symbols: 56 Free Arrow Symbols & Icons
Professional edited free vector arrow symbols & icons for personal and/or commercial usage. This collection of arrow symbols can help you in your art & design. Arrows are often used in Signage and Wayfinding design to guide a visitor in the right direction. All 56 arrows are drawn by Sander Baumann with Adobe Illustrator and can be used in many different ways. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
Free Screensaver
Free Screensaver: Word Clock
Word Clock is a typographic screensaver for Mac OS X. It displays a fixed list of all numbers and words sufficient to express any possible date and time as a sentence. Word Clock displays time by highlighting appropriate words as each second passes. The screensaver is highly customizable. Mac only.
Free Wallpapers
Free Wallpapers: Signalera 1967
Retro strikes again. Signalera 1967 piece presented in wallpaper format. Feel free to download these for use on your desktop, iPhone or Playstation Portable.
Louie Mantia: Desktop Wallpapers
23 desktop wallpapers created by Louie Mantia. Available in fullscreen and widescreen. Most archives include a variety of wallpapers, not just the wallpaper dispayed on the site.
Free Wallpapers: Aqua Pack
A take on creating an aqua-styled wallpaper. Comes in Graphite, Aqua and High Contrast flavors.
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Vitaly Friedman, editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine (www.smashingmagazine.com), an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.
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May 23rd, 2008 7:47 amThe eCommerce icons link appears to be broken…
- 3May 23rd, 2008 7:48 am
@Web Design Glasgow: the link works perfectly.
- 4May 23rd, 2008 7:54 am
the leaf from the Louie Mantia icons is actually the icon for Coda ( http://www.panic.com/coda/ ). Who ripped off who?
- 5May 23rd, 2008 8:02 am
We believe Louie Mantia created this icon for Coda.
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- 7May 23rd, 2008 9:38 am
These incredible wallpapers seem to be very popular.
- 8May 23rd, 2008 9:41 am
David Lanham from the Iconfactory created the Coda icon but Louie got permission to release his mods.
- 9May 23rd, 2008 11:10 am
Wow, awesome screensaver!
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- 11May 23rd, 2008 11:52 am
did i ever tell you how much i love maps!
- 12May 23rd, 2008 2:00 pm
Superb post again ! Thanx
- 13May 23rd, 2008 5:32 pm
Louie Mantia rocks, I’ve been following his site for about a year.
@Jack – Icon redesigns aren’t necessarily ripoffs. Think how many iTunes icons there are. Changing the shading and hues (especially with permission and for non-commercial purposes) seems perfectly fine by me.
- 14May 23rd, 2008 6:35 pm
I think “Louie Mantia Icons” link is wrong,it should be “http://louiemantia.com/icons.htm”
- 15May 23rd, 2008 7:50 pm
Grr. If only Word Clock was compat with PC >:(
- 16May 23rd, 2008 8:10 pm
I just downloaded above free fonts, I like it and I want to use it in may blog iNetBuzz.
- 17May 24th, 2008 12:06 am
These wallpapers and symbols are incredible. I love these wallpapers as my hobby is to collect these from whichever source it may be possible.
- 18May 24th, 2008 1:09 am
Thank you very much for the mention of my vector arrow collection! Highly appreciated! Good luck with SmashingMagazine.
- 19May 24th, 2008 1:30 am
WOW, i love it…
- 20May 24th, 2008 3:37 am
Nice collection of freebies, but it would be good to state that the Photoshop brushes are NOT free for commercial use. The creator requires a fee.
- 21May 24th, 2008 3:41 am
Should have included this in my first comment; it’s from the comments on the page with the brushes:
Hi Guys,
Just to let you know the brushes can be used in commercial projects but you will need to contact me first to discuss. A small rights fee is required. £50.00 for the rights to use all my brush packs, including any future releases.
Email me at paulwillocks@btinternet.com for further details.
Regards,
Paulw
- 22May 24th, 2008 3:43 am
Amazing stuff, when you give out freebies like this I feel all warm inside.
Thanks.
- 23May 24th, 2008 8:05 pm
Providing good links to all the users of the internet is a good way. This helps a lot many people to get a really good stuff from the internet very easily and with very less efforts.
- 24May 25th, 2008 6:39 am
Great freebies bro and thanks for new icons set. I’ve added free ecommerce icons into my free web development icons..
- 25May 25th, 2008 8:46 pm
excellent freebies today. i particular love the Louie Mantia Icons
- 26May 27th, 2008 8:57 am
A treat as usual! Thanks so much!
- 27February 25th, 2009 9:29 am
Thanks for the great icon set that will inspire me on my next caviar site.
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