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Practika: A Free Icon Set

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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.

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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.

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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 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px 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).

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The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.

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  1. 1
    Gipnoz
    September 23rd, 2008 2:06 pm

    Thanks a lot SM! Once more!))
    first by the way

    Reply
  2. 2
    Arnar
    September 23rd, 2008 2:08 pm

    One of the most useful free icon collections I’ve seen here. Nice work!

    Reply
  3. 3
    Temur
    September 23rd, 2008 2:10 pm

    I’m third so what? Yay! icons……….free icons!

    Reply
  4. 4
    Pascal
    September 23rd, 2008 2:28 pm

    whoo!! 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?

    Reply
  5. 5
    Zarathustra
    September 23rd, 2008 2:47 pm

    Slightly less useless than the last lot. An envelope less useless.

    Reply
  6. 6
    ArtHack
    September 23rd, 2008 4:12 pm

    Really good, so I need the resources, thank you

    Reply
  7. 7
    Jillian
    September 23rd, 2008 4:26 pm

    Am 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…

    Reply
  8. 8
    Dannyd
    September 23rd, 2008 7:51 pm

    Beautiful!

    @Jillian: I believe these do have a theme. A career/job hunting/poor web designer looking for a job theme :)

    Reply
  9. 9
    Sam
    September 23rd, 2008 9:15 pm

    Great RSS icon! It looks wonderful! :D

    Reply
  10. 10
    Mike
    September 23rd, 2008 11:12 pm

    RSS on smashing does not work! Do something with it, now !

    Reply
  11. 11
    mukie
    September 23rd, 2008 11:52 pm

    Why are there no editable files in the zip? I really want the “Free for job” text on the “Job openings-sign”.

    Cool icons anyway. :-)

    Reply
  12. 12
    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! ;)

    Reply
  13. 13
    Nathan Beck
    September 24th, 2008 12:06 am

    Beautiful, thanks SM!

    Reply
  14. 14
    Eli
    September 24th, 2008 12:23 am

    Beautiful set. Could be really useful for a website/Blog design.

    Reply
  15. 15
    Sarbjit Singh
    September 24th, 2008 1:38 am

    Hi,

    The RSS subscription is not working.

    “Live bookmark feed failed to load”. Check it!!

    Reply
  16. 16
    Justin
    September 24th, 2008 1:53 am

    The 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 !

    Reply
  17. 17
    ptarmigan
    September 24th, 2008 2:19 am

    Nice graphics. Cute bird ;)

    Reply
  18. 18
    simplechris
    September 24th, 2008 3:01 am

    …thanks smashing, theres no pleasing some people…

    Reply
  19. 19
    pickupjojo
    September 24th, 2008 3:39 am

    The Twitter/Twitterrific icon is so cute, thanks for sharing!
    My new set of icons. :)

    Reply
  20. 20
    Marcus Vinícius
    September 24th, 2008 4:05 am

    great set

    I agree with pascal about a corporate logo, one deep article about would be really very handy

    Thank’s SM

    Reply
  21. 21
    Bob
    September 24th, 2008 5:34 am

    These are great. I’ll definitely be putting these to good use. Thanks Smashing and Dryicons!

    Reply
  22. 22
    Jonathan Snook
    September 24th, 2008 6:55 am

    These 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.

    Reply
  23. 23
    Bobby
    September 24th, 2008 8:10 am

    What a perfect set. Thanks to SM and Dryicons.
    Does anyone knows who these guys are? Where are they located?

    Reply
  24. 24
    abc
    September 24th, 2008 8:11 am

    I use Windows XP and can’t use .png icons
    What can I do to use them???

    Reply
  25. 25
    Takumi86
    September 24th, 2008 8:54 am

    Thanks a lot for this, will try to put this for my Desktop Icon

    Reply
  26. 26
    Cosmi
    September 24th, 2008 9:01 am

    I am 24th, so what? :-|
    Anyway, nice icons.

    Reply
  27. 27
    Lillan
    September 24th, 2008 11:22 am

    Tnx ;)

    Reply
  28. 28
    Kate
    September 24th, 2008 10:19 pm

    loving these :D

    Reply
  29. 29
    javed Khalil
    September 25th, 2008 3:08 am

    Lovely icons. Beautiful work. Amazing…

    Reply
  30. 30
    Bart
    September 25th, 2008 6:45 am

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  31. 31
    Savocado
    September 25th, 2008 7:46 am

    Thanks, I like the birdie the best!

    Reply
  32. 32
    Munki
    September 25th, 2008 12:00 pm

    These are really great icons :)

    Lola

    Reply
  33. 33
    Arnold
    September 26th, 2008 12:01 am

    Thanks a lot!

    Reply
  34. 34
    chokilala
    September 26th, 2008 2:13 am

    thanks. really appreciate this :)

    Reply
  35. 35
    Danh ba web 2.0
    September 27th, 2008 4:43 am

    Thanks for share ! I like it very much

    Reply
  36. 36
    trgy
    September 27th, 2008 8:37 am

    thanks smashing magazine :) cute bird ;)

    Reply
  37. 37
    Edwin
    September 29th, 2008 1:22 am

    Thanks again for this great icon set. Really cool that you give away icon sets so often :)

    Reply
  38. 38
    NetOperator Wibby
    October 3rd, 2008 12:50 pm

    This is excellent! The icons look fantastic.

    Reply
  39. 39
    pankaj
    October 4th, 2008 1:36 am

    hi
    i rely like to this icon
    in like ih
    thanks

    Reply
  40. 40
    pankaj
    October 4th, 2008 1:37 am

    plz
    give me some icons fre set site name this email id par
    i like to learn to icon see and create the designe
    ok
    bye
    tsk

    Reply
  41. 41
    Praveen Nair
    October 6th, 2008 8:15 pm

    thanks……. again

    Reply
  42. 42
    Raj
    October 14th, 2008 8:34 pm

    very nice icons… thanx!

    Reply
  43. 43
    SOS Media
    October 18th, 2008 1:40 pm

    Thank you, this is beautiful!

    Reply
  44. 44
    weblizzer
    November 4th, 2008 1:52 am

    i love this collection, nice set of icons….. i love to use this for some of my designs…

    Reply
  45. 45
    Nivea - Brasil
    November 10th, 2008 10:31 am

    Very, very good!!
    many tks =)

    Reply
  46. 46
    George
    November 18th, 2008 2:00 pm

    Thanks alot very nice =]

    Reply
  47. 47
    MayaMiru
    November 19th, 2008 10:56 am

    Thanks for the wonderful icon set! I’ll link back to you for every icon used on my website! Thanks!

    Reply
  48. 48
    shafwan`
    November 25th, 2008 4:33 am

    pls put more logo’s in this

    Reply
  49. 49
    eric tan
    December 2nd, 2008 10:25 pm

    these icons are super!

    Reply
  50. 50
    pram
    January 19th, 2009 5:33 am

    Thaanks…
    this is very useful… :)

    Reply
  51. 51
    Wazdesign
    January 20th, 2009 9:32 pm

    Great Collection really High quality .. keep it up..

    Reply
  52. 52
    carrie
    February 16th, 2009 5:53 pm

    Thanks very much.

    Reply
  53. 53
    Tinh
    February 16th, 2009 7:55 pm

    Great collection, thanks for sharing

    Reply
  54. 54
    Laura-Jane
    March 23rd, 2009 4:17 am

    Thanks! Great work, no restrictions. Thanks again and keep ‘em coming!

    Reply
  55. 55
    Ur Entertainment Port
    March 28th, 2009 9:33 pm

    I love it… They are all awesome and unique. Great work and thank you for sharing!!!!!!

    Reply
  56. 56
    Jumanji
    April 11th, 2009 11:31 am

    very good indeed thanks!

    Reply
  57. 57
    Ben
    April 15th, 2009 9:31 am

    Hey, do I see the Twitterific bird there? :O

    Reply
  58. 58
    winD
    May 5th, 2009 1:31 am

    this job really awesome.I use this icon in my website. thank you very much.

    Reply
  59. 59
    rx_queen
    May 15th, 2009 11:55 pm

    Great icons! Thanks!!

    Reply
  60. 60
    Dushyant
    May 19th, 2009 9:21 pm

    Amazon icon

    Thanks

    Reply
  61. 61
    erin
    May 27th, 2009 11:25 am

    Cute 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.

    Reply
  62. 62
    Hesham
    June 22nd, 2009 8:06 am

    Thank for sharing, I love your free stuff :)

    Reply
  63. 63
    MamaJoy
    June 27th, 2009 5:09 am

    cute!!!!! super cute!!!!

    Reply
  64. 64
    Me
    August 27th, 2009 11:25 am

    Really, 64×64 is the smallest “icon” in this set? Oh please.

    Reply
  65. 65
    hariz indo
    August 29th, 2009 7:16 am

    Nice…!!
    thanx for sharing…

    Reply
  66. 66
    Ale Carvalho
    September 1st, 2009 3:50 pm

    Thank! cute !

    Reply
  67. 67
    amir
    September 6th, 2009 12:48 pm

    you are verry nice………………….

    Reply
  68. 68
    Keith Davis
    September 29th, 2009 12:12 pm

    Dryicons 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!

    Reply
  69. 69
    Gen
    December 2nd, 2009 4:53 am

    Thank 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!

    Reply
  70. 70
    Kathleen Seide
    December 7th, 2009 10:55 am

    Thanks 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.

    Reply
  71. 71
    Gidin
    December 10th, 2009 10:46 am

    Cool icon, my site have a cool icon Twitter to !!!

    Reply
  72. 72
    kristen
    December 23rd, 2009 7:19 am

    Great icons! Thanks!!
    bye
    kristen stewart o kris

    Reply
  73. 73
    Andy Moore
    January 13th, 2010 10:28 am

    Hi 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!

    Reply
  74. 74
    Sam Thompson
    January 17th, 2010 3:27 am

    Loving the Twitter logo, been looking for a decent one all morning! Certainly will be linking back to this, cheers.

    Sam Thompson

    Reply
  75. 75
    dwight
    January 18th, 2010 3:26 pm

    Thanks for the icons, I am making the page with the tutorial Build a Promotional iPhone App Website. This is So Cool.

    Reply
  76. 76
    Vinna
    January 28th, 2010 5:03 am

    Thanks very useful

    Reply
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