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Simplicio: A Free Icon Set
September 2nd, 2008 in Freebies | 98 Comments
We are always looking for creative and talented artists and designers. Once we find them, we ask them to cooperate with us and release something for free. We provide them with the full freedom to showcase their professionalism and express their creativity. Every release helps to make the Web a nicer place. In fact, the results are quite often pretty impressive. You can find our previous releases in our section Freebies.
Today we are glad to release a Simplicio icon set. The main motivation behind the design was to create a simple, even minimalistic set which can fit into every project. The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting. You can use the set for free – without any restrictions whatsoever.
The icons are available in the .png- and .ico-formats in the resolution 128×128px. AI-sources are also included in the package. This icon set was designed by Neurovit from Turkey especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
Download Icons For Free!
You can use the icons for private and commercial projects, blogs and web-sites for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. However, you are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons without author’s and Smashing Magazine’s permission.
- Large preview (jpg, 0.3 Mb)
- ICO + PNG files + AI sources (2.3 Mb)
Thank you, Neurovit!
You want to showcase your work as well?
We are regularly looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we might feature you in one of our upcoming posts.
If you would like to release a high-quality free font, a Wordpress-theme, some wallpapers or an icon-set please contact us – we would like to support you (both financially and with the broad coverage on Smashing Magazine).
You may be interested in the following freebies as well:
- On Stage: A Free Icon Set
- RSS/Feed Icon Set
- Grunge Photoshop Brushes Set
- Smashy The Alien Icon Set
- Smashing Royal Icon Set
Yuriy (September 2nd, 2008, 11:32 am)
Awesome, more icons is always good :)
isaac (September 2nd, 2008, 11:36 am)
Nice, thanks!
Josiah J. (September 2nd, 2008, 11:38 am)
Excellent! Thank you!
trcwest (September 2nd, 2008, 11:40 am)
thanks i use the rss one on my site .. they are ace..
txuben (September 2nd, 2008, 11:50 am)
Awesome, thanks!
Paul (September 2nd, 2008, 11:55 am)
Cool Icons. Thanks
Always awesome Smashing Magazine.
kim (September 2nd, 2008, 12:06 pm)
One of these days, I would love to create an icon set for Smashing mag. I’ve done several for my own use, but never for mass consumption. What a great idea!
Giuseppe (September 2nd, 2008, 12:13 pm)
OMG, that cup of coffee is UGLY!
maikeroo (September 2nd, 2008, 12:16 pm)
Wow, thanks… Nice icons…
Arnar (September 2nd, 2008, 12:16 pm)
The floppy disk and computer screen are pretty craptastic as well
IhateDesign (September 2nd, 2008, 12:25 pm)
Simply and amazing!
IhateDesign
Haddy (September 2nd, 2008, 1:22 pm)
Smashing Rocks! Thanks!
Brandon (September 2nd, 2008, 1:26 pm)
The colors could benefit from a bit of work for my own personal tastes, but the icons themselves are pretty hot. I especially like the simplified approach to some of these. I’ll definitely be checking these out the next time I need some icons. Thanks for sharing the set! Link [www.makedesignnotwar.com]
2expertsdesign.com (September 2nd, 2008, 1:43 pm)
thanks! Great Icon set
Mr Kuzio (September 2nd, 2008, 2:19 pm)
Thank you so much!
Lumaflux (September 2nd, 2008, 3:33 pm)
Makes me wanna make something cool for you guys. :)
William (September 2nd, 2008, 3:35 pm)
Ooh, very clean and nice! Thank you so much.
mikemike (September 2nd, 2008, 3:50 pm)
Bout time son. I love icons, they make me want to click 4 ads on your page.
Rom Simplicio (September 2nd, 2008, 4:19 pm)
Wow, my surname is the name of the icon set, very cool.
They look like small stickers. (That’s a compliment).
Tiago Sá (September 2nd, 2008, 5:03 pm)
Incredible set. Excellent.
John (September 2nd, 2008, 6:44 pm)
icons, icons, icons…..
yourmom@mailmanshouse.com (September 2nd, 2008, 7:09 pm)
did you really just post the download type as a .rar –what a jackass. Nice crap frosting on a beautiful cake. Now I will not use them because I do not have time to install shit to open rars. Nice customer focus
Robert (September 2nd, 2008, 7:18 pm)
I like them very much. Thank you SM!
Grafiko (September 2nd, 2008, 7:53 pm)
great download. simplicity is great
ElisabethQ (September 2nd, 2008, 10:24 pm)
I can’t open this download - it is a .rar file and Windows has offered me two options that cost money. Doesn’t seem like a good way to fold up a file that’s supposed to be free?
FuNKeR (September 2nd, 2008, 10:53 pm)
Wow, these are awesome. Will see if I can use them somewhere.
Ed (September 2nd, 2008, 11:28 pm)
Great that other people want to make icons for Smashing Magazine - take heed guys ;-)
The icons are nice and clean which is normally what I go for but I don’t see a use for them in my projects. Thanks though!
MiSc (September 2nd, 2008, 11:32 pm)
don’t these icons somehow perfectly fit to google’s chrome browser color invironment? good work, nice and fresh new approach.
Stuart (September 3rd, 2008, 1:02 am)
I have a question on the license…
Can I use these (and other smashing mag free icons) as part of a CMS template that is distributed a) free, or b) commercially?
Thanks.
derdaniel (September 3rd, 2008, 1:11 am)
thank you
pratee (September 3rd, 2008, 2:33 am)
tooooooooo..nice…………….
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (September 3rd, 2008, 4:11 am)
@Stuart (#29): these icons are absolutely free. You may use them as a part of a CMS template that is distributed free or commercially.
Techplop (September 3rd, 2008, 4:53 am)
It’s great that Smashing mag releases great icons but you really should pick a “real” license like MIT, BSD, Creative Commons, Public Domain, GPL etc. Something that is more “clear” to users than that sentence you now use.
Bart (September 3rd, 2008, 5:38 am)
Very good
Emy (September 3rd, 2008, 6:01 am)
Love it!
Jimbo (September 3rd, 2008, 6:12 am)
Great!
Mr. Reeee (September 3rd, 2008, 6:38 am)
Ho hum. Pretty average.
Want great icons?
Link [www.iconfactory.com]
Adeel Shahid (September 3rd, 2008, 9:28 am)
Simple and Beautiful
Cosmi (September 3rd, 2008, 10:34 am)
Awesome, thanks!
Dré (September 3rd, 2008, 1:22 pm)
GREAT icon set! I’m tired of the shiny and glossy icons these days.. These are nice and clean! Many thanks!
(but indeed the coffee doesnt fit the rest)
Dré (September 3rd, 2008, 1:24 pm)
Maybe u could make some more of em! :-$ -> as in, more combinations like famfam in this style!
Ivan (September 3rd, 2008, 2:16 pm)
Thanks nice work
mpderry (September 6th, 2008, 7:45 am)
Wonderfull! and AI sources are really good, one more inspiration to foolow :)
Orhan (September 7th, 2008, 2:39 am)
lovely!! i like it so much thanks for sharing :)))
comzeradd (September 9th, 2008, 1:18 pm)
it would be nice to choose Link [en.wikipedia.org] as the vector format, since it’s supported in almost every vector application ;)
Takuya Saito (September 16th, 2008, 9:46 pm)
めちゃくちゃ有り難いです！
nyunyu (September 17th, 2008, 6:40 pm)
Thank you for releasing this for free!
persianet (September 29th, 2008, 9:54 am)
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aaromnido (October 1st, 2008, 5:48 am)
Hi friends,
In first place, congratulations, very nice icons. Good job.
At second, I want to make you a question:
I getted you icons and I modified some they and I created others news icons in base to Simplicio Icon Set. I used “my news icons” in the backend of an aplication that use Link [ufku.com]. This is an open source WYSIWYG javascript editor.
May I send “my icons” to contribute to Bueditor project?
Thank you.
Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (October 1st, 2008, 5:54 am)
@aaromnido: sure, they are absolutely free, you can use them for whatever purposes you want.
digadao (October 13th, 2008, 6:34 am)
Simple and very efficient ! Thanks very much for sharing.
ZOUP (October 29th, 2008, 1:58 am)
Cool & Thank You