Smashing Royal Icon Set
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.




chris
June 20th, 2008 2:09 amgreat stuff smashing mag!
first?
June 20th, 2008 2:11 amfirst?
sweet designs. cant believe this is free. good work!
des
June 20th, 2008 2:29 amaccording to their website artua is from Ukraine, not Russia
Eli
June 20th, 2008 3:01 amLovely designs, just have to find a use for them :)
.Lithium
June 20th, 2008 3:04 amLove this set! SM has done it once again!
Angel
June 20th, 2008 3:12 amHow can you call an icon an icon when there’s no icns file? Tssss
andre
June 20th, 2008 3:41 amMan! 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 amWuhoo, amazingly done!
Anthony
June 20th, 2008 4:25 amWow, this set is truely amazing
Chris
June 20th, 2008 4:44 amI love them!
Benjamin David
June 20th, 2008 4:53 amHey, 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 :
webdesignerthings.com/tuto…
Benni
June 20th, 2008 7:36 amGreat icons !
Tyler @ Building Camelot
June 20th, 2008 7:41 amAnother awesome set! Thank you
kaitong
June 20th, 2008 10:18 amthanks!!! It’s awesome..
Hugobel
June 20th, 2008 11:49 amyay! nice design, thanks for your work
Echilon
June 20th, 2008 12:01 pmI 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 pmVery nice work. Such good detail. Thanks for sharing it with us. =]
Bart
June 21st, 2008 4:21 amI like this! Please more of this :D
Benedikt
June 21st, 2008 12:41 pmNice Icons!
Love the Freebie section :-D
Megan Boris
June 21st, 2008 3:01 pmGreat resource! Thanks!
Cosmi
June 22nd, 2008 12:50 pmGreat set !
Den
June 22nd, 2008 6:21 pmCooooooooooool Stuff..thank u
Artua
June 23rd, 2008 12:09 amThank you for the good words guys! :)
David
June 23rd, 2008 1:10 amyeah royal style !
Will
June 23rd, 2008 2:32 amThese should not be free! You are too kind! :P
viju
June 24th, 2008 1:52 amNIce design………………..
Muneef
June 24th, 2008 5:42 amThanks a lot!
*Jul!e
June 24th, 2008 4:51 pmThanks a lot !
jameslh
June 25th, 2008 8:34 amRoyally Good. They have some more free sets on their website too. very talented
Freetek
June 27th, 2008 11:24 pmNice icons!
Does anybody know where i can get such backgrounds, like in the preview.jpg?
Fierro
August 12th, 2008 7:05 amThanks .. bud, Great Design.EYE CATCHING!!!!!!
Fierro.
Joe
August 27th, 2008 6:41 pmSimple 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 amReally great ico set
yesnia
October 2nd, 2008 11:54 amThank you for the good words, great resource!
yesnia
October 2nd, 2008 11:55 ami love guys
Furqonk
November 3rd, 2008 8:53 pmThanks, for sharing
Anwar
December 23rd, 2008 9:35 pmHii, Its really very nice icons. thanks for sharing.
mimwow
January 13th, 2009 1:30 amwow really nice icons, thnx
Nima Irani
October 15th, 2011 4:40 pmgreat icons , thanks a lot