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Smashing Royal Icon Set
By Smashing Editorial, June 20th, 2008 in Freebies | 86 Comments | Forum
If you have been following Smashing Magazine for a while you know that 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. You can find many of them in our section Freebies.
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.
Today we are glad to release a free smashing royal icon set. The set contains 6 “royal” icons which you can use for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free — without any restrictions whatsoever. The icons are available in .ico and .png-formats in resolutions 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px.
This icon set was designed by Artua Design Studio from Ukraine especially for Smashing Magazine as a gift for its readers.
Download Royal Icon Set 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 or redistribute the icons without author’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.
- PNG files (0.35 Mb)
- Windows icons (0.36 Mb)
Motivation behind the design
Sergio Perets and Erik Nuriev are the creative minds behind Artua Design Studio, the designer of Pirates Icon Pack we have released in one of our previous posts. We’ve asked Sergio to design a creative, memorable and beautiful icon set for our readers. He agreed. Here are some insights from the designer himself:
Monarchy is the idea that has inspired us to design the icon set for Smashing Magazine. This are luxury and classic things that can be seen in some royal museum. These icons can be placed on your desktop. Compass can be the cool new icon for your browser, Roll can easily replace the icon of you email client and so on.
We hope everybody will enjoy these icons!
Sergio Perets and Erik Nuriev
Thank you, Sergio and Erik!
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.
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chris (June 20th, 2008, 2:09 am)
great stuff smashing mag!
first? (June 20th, 2008, 2:11 am)
first?
sweet designs. cant believe this is free. good work!
des (June 20th, 2008, 2:29 am)
according to their website artua is from Ukraine, not Russia
Eli (June 20th, 2008, 3:01 am)
Lovely designs, just have to find a use for them :)
.Lithium (June 20th, 2008, 3:04 am)
Love this set! SM has done it once again!
Angel (June 20th, 2008, 3:12 am)
How can you call an icon an icon when there’s no icns file? Tssss
andre (June 20th, 2008, 3:41 am)
Man! I really admire that ones who have the ability to draw icons with so many details. Cheers from Porto Alegre, Brazil!
thomas (June 20th, 2008, 3:47 am)
Wuhoo, amazingly done!
Anthony (June 20th, 2008, 4:25 am)
Wow, this set is truely amazing
Chris (June 20th, 2008, 4:44 am)
I love them!
Benjamin David (June 20th, 2008, 4:53 am)
Hey, I’m not really fond of that style but I appreciate the details and the hard work !
I’ve made atutorial for designing Mobile Me icon, and if some people are interested, I will translate it. I think Smashing readers can be interested but I didn’t know where to share it so here it is :
Link [webdesignerthings.com]…
Benni (June 20th, 2008, 7:36 am)
Great icons !
Tyler @ Building Camelot (June 20th, 2008, 7:41 am)
Another awesome set! Thank you
kaitong (June 20th, 2008, 10:18 am)
thanks!!! It’s awesome..
Hugobel (June 20th, 2008, 11:49 am)
yay! nice design, thanks for your work
Echilon (June 20th, 2008, 12:01 pm)
I honestly can’t think of a single time I’ve ever needed to or would ever need to use an icon of a guy with a 17th century hairdo.
Nice icons all the same though. :)
Hourglass (June 20th, 2008, 8:43 pm)
Very nice work. Such good detail. Thanks for sharing it with us. =]
Bart (June 21st, 2008, 4:21 am)
I like this! Please more of this :D
Benedikt (June 21st, 2008, 12:41 pm)
Nice Icons!
Love the Freebie section :-D
Megan Boris (June 21st, 2008, 3:01 pm)
Great resource! Thanks!
Cosmi (June 22nd, 2008, 12:50 pm)
Great set !
Den (June 22nd, 2008, 6:21 pm)
Cooooooooooool Stuff..thank u
Artua (June 23rd, 2008, 12:09 am)
Thank you for the good words guys! :)
David (June 23rd, 2008, 1:10 am)
yeah royal style !
Will (June 23rd, 2008, 2:32 am)
These should not be free! You are too kind! :P
viju (June 24th, 2008, 1:52 am)
NIce design………………..
Muneef (June 24th, 2008, 5:42 am)
Thanks a lot!
*Jul!e (June 24th, 2008, 4:51 pm)
Thanks a lot !
jameslh (June 25th, 2008, 8:34 am)
Royally Good. They have some more free sets on their website too. very talented
Freetek (June 27th, 2008, 11:24 pm)
Nice icons!
Does anybody know where i can get such backgrounds, like in the preview.jpg?
Fierro (August 12th, 2008, 7:05 am)
Thanks .. bud, Great Design.EYE CATCHING!!!!!!
Fierro.
Joe (August 27th, 2008, 6:41 pm)
Simple awesome. I have the perfect site to use these on. They’re …. hmm, I already said perfect didn’t I.
angeloff (October 2nd, 2008, 5:46 am)
Really great ico set
yesnia (October 2nd, 2008, 11:54 am)
Thank you for the good words, great resource!
yesnia (October 2nd, 2008, 11:55 am)
i love guys
Furqonk (November 3rd, 2008, 8:53 pm)
Thanks, for sharing
Anwar (December 23rd, 2008, 9:35 pm)
Hii, Its really very nice icons. thanks for sharing.
mimwow (January 13th, 2009, 1:30 am)
wow really nice icons, thnx