Practika: A Free Icon Set
Today we are glad to release Practika: a free set of 11 practical and useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px, in 32-bit transparency PNG. These icons can be used for a variety of purposes — in particular, in portfolios and in corporate designs.
Download the Set for Free!
You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. However, it’s forbidden to sell them. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- Download the set (.zip, 0.8 Mb)
Motivation Behind the Design
As usual, here are some insights from the designers themselves:
“When asked to design a set of icons for Smashing Magazine, DryIcons’ designers decided to create a practical, user-friendly icon set, one that could have a large range of uses, and look great at the same time. Our main motivation for this icon set was to give the readers something they could really use.
The “Practika” icon set is stylish and elegant and can find its use in all websites, blogs, applications. The set contains 11 high quality web icons in 32-bit transparency in PNG file format. They come in 64x64px, 128x128px and 256x256px size.”
Thank you, guys!
Last But Not Least
We are looking for creative designers and artists. You may not know it yet, but we may feature you in one of our upcoming posts. If you would like to release a free high-quality font, a WordPress theme, Photoshop brushes, a Drupal theme, some wallpapers or an icon set, please contact us. We would like to support you (both financially and with the broad readership of Smashing Magazine).
Gipnoz
September 23rd, 2008 2:06 pmThanks a lot SM! Once more!))
first by the way
Arnar
September 23rd, 2008 2:08 pmOne of the most useful free icon collections I’ve seen here. Nice work!
Temur
September 23rd, 2008 2:10 pmI’m third so what? Yay! icons……….free icons!
Pascal
September 23rd, 2008 2:28 pmwhoo!! very very nice logo’s
Can i request a article smashingmagazine style (quality) about rules and guidelines of designing a good corporate logo.. One going deeper then the article(s) you already got on logo designing?
Zarathustra
September 23rd, 2008 2:47 pmSlightly less useless than the last lot. An envelope less useless.
ArtHack
September 23rd, 2008 4:12 pmReally good, so I need the resources, thank you
Jillian
September 23rd, 2008 4:26 pmAm I the only one who doesn’t understand these “icon sets”? To me an icon set is a collection of graphics based on a certain theme that are designed to convey meaning even at a very small size. When I look at these all I see is a random sampling of seemingly unrelated vector artwork. Don’t get me wrong, it’s very nice, high quality artwork, and it’s free, so I’m not complaining – but I think that calling it an icon set is a bit of a misnomer…
Dannyd
September 23rd, 2008 7:51 pmBeautiful!
@Jillian: I believe these do have a theme. A career/job hunting/poor web designer looking for a job theme :)
Sam
September 23rd, 2008 9:15 pmGreat RSS icon! It looks wonderful! :D
Mike
September 23rd, 2008 11:12 pmRSS on smashing does not work! Do something with it, now !
mukie
September 23rd, 2008 11:52 pmWhy are there no editable files in the zip? I really want the “Free for job” text on the “Job openings-sign”.
Cool icons anyway. :-)
Zarathustra
September 24th, 2008 12:02 am@Jillian – Come on! These are the perfect set for that boxing website your designing. You know the one with the twitter and RSS feeds and the jobs available. ahaha. Somewhere someone is saying “there is is”! The perfect icon “set” and free! ;)
Nathan Beck
September 24th, 2008 12:06 amBeautiful, thanks SM!
Eli
September 24th, 2008 12:23 amBeautiful set. Could be really useful for a website/Blog design.
Sarbjit Singh
September 24th, 2008 1:38 amHi,
The RSS subscription is not working.
“Live bookmark feed failed to load”. Check it!!
Justin
September 24th, 2008 1:53 amThe portfolio and testimonial icons are really useful. The others not so much but this is a freebie after all so thanks a lot to the designers and thanks also to Smashing Magazine for offering them to us !
ptarmigan
September 24th, 2008 2:19 amNice graphics. Cute bird ;)
simplechris
September 24th, 2008 3:01 am…thanks smashing, theres no pleasing some people…
pickupjojo
September 24th, 2008 3:39 amThe Twitter/Twitterrific icon is so cute, thanks for sharing!
My new set of icons. :)
Marcus Vinícius
September 24th, 2008 4:05 amgreat set
I agree with pascal about a corporate logo, one deep article about would be really very handy
Thank’s SM
Bob
September 24th, 2008 5:34 amThese are great. I’ll definitely be putting these to good use. Thanks Smashing and Dryicons!
Jonathan Snook
September 24th, 2008 6:55 amThese came at a great time. I’ve been talked into linking up my Twitter account and that blue bird should do quite nicely. Kudos to DryIcons for putting these together.
Bobby
September 24th, 2008 8:10 amWhat a perfect set. Thanks to SM and Dryicons.
Does anyone knows who these guys are? Where are they located?
abc
September 24th, 2008 8:11 amI use Windows XP and can’t use .png icons
What can I do to use them???
Takumi86
September 24th, 2008 8:54 amThanks a lot for this, will try to put this for my Desktop Icon
Cosmi
September 24th, 2008 9:01 amI am 24th, so what? :-|
Anyway, nice icons.
Lillan
September 24th, 2008 11:22 amTnx ;)
Kate
September 24th, 2008 10:19 pmloving these :D
javed Khalil
September 25th, 2008 3:08 amLovely icons. Beautiful work. Amazing…
Bart
September 25th, 2008 6:45 amThanks a lot!
Savocado
September 25th, 2008 7:46 amThanks, I like the birdie the best!
Munki
September 25th, 2008 12:00 pmThese are really great icons :)
Lola
Arnold
September 26th, 2008 12:01 amThanks a lot!
chokilala
September 26th, 2008 2:13 amthanks. really appreciate this :)
Danh ba web 2.0
September 27th, 2008 4:43 amThanks for share ! I like it very much
trgy
September 27th, 2008 8:37 amthanks smashing magazine :) cute bird ;)
Edwin
September 29th, 2008 1:22 amThanks again for this great icon set. Really cool that you give away icon sets so often :)
NetOperator Wibby
October 3rd, 2008 12:50 pmThis is excellent! The icons look fantastic.
pankaj
October 4th, 2008 1:36 amhi
i rely like to this icon
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thanks
pankaj
October 4th, 2008 1:37 amplz
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i like to learn to icon see and create the designe
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Praveen Nair
October 6th, 2008 8:15 pmthanks……. again
Raj
October 14th, 2008 8:34 pmvery nice icons… thanx!
SOS Media
October 18th, 2008 1:40 pmThank you, this is beautiful!
weblizzer
November 4th, 2008 1:52 ami love this collection, nice set of icons….. i love to use this for some of my designs…
Nivea - Brasil
November 10th, 2008 10:31 amVery, very good!!
many tks =)
George
November 18th, 2008 2:00 pmThanks alot very nice =]
MayaMiru
November 19th, 2008 10:56 amThanks for the wonderful icon set! I’ll link back to you for every icon used on my website! Thanks!
shafwan`
November 25th, 2008 4:33 ampls put more logo’s in this
eric tan
December 2nd, 2008 10:25 pmthese icons are super!
pram
January 19th, 2009 5:33 amThaanks…
this is very useful… :)
Wazdesign
January 20th, 2009 9:32 pmGreat Collection really High quality .. keep it up..
carrie
February 16th, 2009 5:53 pmThanks very much.
Tinh
February 16th, 2009 7:55 pmGreat collection, thanks for sharing
Laura-Jane
March 23rd, 2009 4:17 amThanks! Great work, no restrictions. Thanks again and keep ‘em coming!
Ur Entertainment Port
March 28th, 2009 9:33 pmI love it… They are all awesome and unique. Great work and thank you for sharing!!!!!!
Jumanji
April 11th, 2009 11:31 amvery good indeed thanks!
Ben
April 15th, 2009 9:31 amHey, do I see the Twitterific bird there? :O
winD
May 5th, 2009 1:31 amthis job really awesome.I use this icon in my website. thank you very much.
rx_queen
May 15th, 2009 11:55 pmGreat icons! Thanks!!
Dushyant
May 19th, 2009 9:21 pmAmazon icon
Thanks
erin
May 27th, 2009 11:25 amCute bird icon! It is VERY ironic, though, that you release a good, free bird like this, while your own website’s link to Twitter makes use of the copyrighted Iconfactory icon for Twitterific! Twitter and Twitterific are NOT the same product, and that whispering bluebird is a copyrighted image representing a piece of commercial software.
Hesham
June 22nd, 2009 8:06 amThank for sharing, I love your free stuff :)
MamaJoy
June 27th, 2009 5:09 amcute!!!!! super cute!!!!
Me
August 27th, 2009 11:25 amReally, 64×64 is the smallest “icon” in this set? Oh please.
hariz indo
August 29th, 2009 7:16 amNice…!!
thanx for sharing…
Ale Carvalho
September 1st, 2009 3:50 pmThank! cute !
amir
September 6th, 2009 12:48 pmyou are verry nice………………….
Keith Davis
September 29th, 2009 12:12 pmDryicons produce fantastic free icons and this set is up to their high standard.
The Twitter blue bird is classic, just what a Twitter icon should look like!
Gen
December 2nd, 2009 4:53 amThank you for sharing these! I’m a freelance graphic designer and the twitter bird was exactly what I was looking for to add to the ‘contact’ page on my site (www.genevievedonaldson.com). Cheers!
Kathleen Seide
December 7th, 2009 10:55 amThanks for sharing, I love the Twitter bird too – grabbed these for that one but may use several of them because they are clean and attractive.
Gidin
December 10th, 2009 10:46 amCool icon, my site have a cool icon Twitter to !!!
kristen
December 23rd, 2009 7:19 amGreat icons! Thanks!!
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kristen stewart o kris
Andy Moore
January 13th, 2010 10:28 amHi there,
I love the Twitter icon and thought I’d pop by and say thanks, I’m just positioning this on my new site now.
Thanks for sharing!
Sam Thompson
January 17th, 2010 3:27 amLoving the Twitter logo, been looking for a decent one all morning! Certainly will be linking back to this, cheers.
Sam Thompson
dwight
January 18th, 2010 3:26 pmThanks for the icons, I am making the page with the tutorial Build a Promotional iPhone App Website. This is So Cool.
Vinna
January 28th, 2010 5:03 amThanks very useful
Denya
March 27th, 2010 4:52 amthanks! Good job!
MomentswithMegan.com
April 7th, 2010 9:12 pmHi!
I just wanted to say thank you for the icons, especially the Twitter bird. I wanted to make my own Twitter button, so I used GIMP to make one with your bird. I had a lot of fun doing it and I think I’ll get more Twitter followers with it.
I didn’t want to put the link to my page with my edited version of your bird (don’t wanna look spammy), but my name is the same as my site.
Thanks again!
-Megan Anne @MomentswithMegan.com
juan iconshock
May 8th, 2010 11:32 amWow, great icons here, I think our latest freebie could be interesting too, more than 50 vector twitter icons with great quality: http://su.pr/16VDOJ
Ben DeVries
May 12th, 2010 1:24 pmThese were wonderful, and perfect for my site. Thank you so much for making them available, I will be sure to thank you on our credits page. Best wishes, Ben (notonesparrow.com)
Artvitality
May 19th, 2010 6:54 pmGood icons. It would be excellent, if you could offer them in EPS format )))
Look through our FREE photos blog. I think it will be interesting too. 1photos.com
Oby
June 11th, 2010 7:35 amGood Icons
Justyna
July 21st, 2010 12:39 pmThank you for these great icons. The bird icon is so cute!!!
Siddharth
August 14th, 2010 5:56 amAwesome work :)
Sutzu
October 27th, 2010 12:41 amGreat icons, great resource. Thank You!
abhilash
November 1st, 2010 9:38 pmvery nice icons .its very useful
Jonas
January 15th, 2011 12:02 pmHey :-)
Thank you very much for this set :) Not every person give it out for free and with the license to use it ;) I Like you and this set.
Sry for my bad English…
gadu
March 30th, 2011 6:42 pm@glaucomvm
Winklet Web Design
April 28th, 2011 8:07 amThanks. I love the Twitter one :)
Bruno condé
June 19th, 2011 11:49 amGreat!!!
thank you for your help!!! You save-me today rsrs
Life is good!
Sorry my wrongs….=/
Kiss!
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Naomi
September 2nd, 2011 12:14 pmThese are beautiful! thank you for sharing!
SURESH
September 28th, 2011 6:19 ami WOULD LIKE TO USE THIS ICON FOR COMMERCIAL PURPOSE ie IMPLEMENTED THESE ICONS IN TO TEMPLATES AND TEMPALTES GOING TO BE SOLD.
gHants
September 29th, 2011 4:47 pmPerfect icon for design!!
Thanks.