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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 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).
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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- 2September 23rd, 2008 2:08 pm
One of the most useful free icon collections I’ve seen here. Nice work!
- 3September 23rd, 2008 2:10 pm
I’m third so what? Yay! icons……….free icons!
- 4September 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?
- 5September 23rd, 2008 2:47 pm
Slightly less useless than the last lot. An envelope less useless.
- 6September 23rd, 2008 4:12 pm
Really good, so I need the resources, thank you
- 7September 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…
- 8September 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 :)
- 9September 23rd, 2008 9:15 pm
Great RSS icon! It looks wonderful! :D
- 10September 23rd, 2008 11:12 pm
RSS on smashing does not work! Do something with it, now !
- 11September 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. :-)
- 12September 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! ;)
- 13September 24th, 2008 12:06 am
Beautiful, thanks SM!
- 14September 24th, 2008 12:23 am
Beautiful set. Could be really useful for a website/Blog design.
- 15September 24th, 2008 1:38 am
Hi,
The RSS subscription is not working.
“Live bookmark feed failed to load”. Check it!!
- 16September 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 !
- 17September 24th, 2008 2:19 am
Nice graphics. Cute bird ;)
- 18September 24th, 2008 3:01 am
…thanks smashing, theres no pleasing some people…
- 19September 24th, 2008 3:39 am
The Twitter/Twitterrific icon is so cute, thanks for sharing!
My new set of icons. :) - 20September 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
- 21September 24th, 2008 5:34 am
These are great. I’ll definitely be putting these to good use. Thanks Smashing and Dryicons!
- 22September 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.
- 23September 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? - 24September 24th, 2008 8:11 am
I use Windows XP and can’t use .png icons
What can I do to use them??? - 25September 24th, 2008 8:54 am
Thanks a lot for this, will try to put this for my Desktop Icon
- 26September 24th, 2008 9:01 am
I am 24th, so what? :-|
Anyway, nice icons. - 27September 24th, 2008 11:22 am
Tnx ;)
- 28September 24th, 2008 10:19 pm
loving these :D
- 29September 25th, 2008 3:08 am
Lovely icons. Beautiful work. Amazing…
- 30September 25th, 2008 6:45 am
Thanks a lot!
- 31September 25th, 2008 7:46 am
Thanks, I like the birdie the best!
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- 33September 26th, 2008 12:01 am
Thanks a lot!
- 34September 26th, 2008 2:13 am
thanks. really appreciate this :)
- 35September 27th, 2008 4:43 am
Thanks for share ! I like it very much
- 36September 27th, 2008 8:37 am
thanks smashing magazine :) cute bird ;)
- 37September 29th, 2008 1:22 am
Thanks again for this great icon set. Really cool that you give away icon sets so often :)
- 38October 3rd, 2008 12:50 pm
This is excellent! The icons look fantastic.
- 39October 4th, 2008 1:36 am
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i rely like to this icon
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thanks - 40October 4th, 2008 1:37 am
plz
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i like to learn to icon see and create the designe
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tsk - 41October 6th, 2008 8:15 pm
thanks……. again
- 42October 14th, 2008 8:34 pm
very nice icons… thanx!
- 43October 18th, 2008 1:40 pm
Thank you, this is beautiful!
- 44November 4th, 2008 1:52 am
i love this collection, nice set of icons….. i love to use this for some of my designs…
- 45November 10th, 2008 10:31 am
Very, very good!!
many tks =) - 46November 18th, 2008 2:00 pm
Thanks alot very nice =]
- 47November 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!
- 48November 21st, 2008 2:23 am
After tried to download the icon set and failed, I was found this set on a warez site. I have uploaded this set on my drop box public folder to share. You can get it here: practika.zip.
- 49November 25th, 2008 4:33 am
pls put more logo’s in this
- 50December 2nd, 2008 10:25 pm
these icons are super!
- 51January 19th, 2009 5:33 am
Thaanks…
this is very useful… :) - 52January 20th, 2009 9:32 pm
Great Collection really High quality .. keep it up..
- 53February 16th, 2009 5:53 pm
Thanks very much.
- 54February 16th, 2009 7:55 pm
Great collection, thanks for sharing
- 55March 23rd, 2009 4:17 am
Thanks! Great work, no restrictions. Thanks again and keep ‘em coming!
- 56March 28th, 2009 9:33 pm
I love it… They are all awesome and unique. Great work and thank you for sharing!!!!!!
- 57April 11th, 2009 11:31 am
very good indeed thanks!
- 58April 15th, 2009 9:31 am
Hey, do I see the Twitterific bird there? :O
- 59May 5th, 2009 1:31 am
this job really awesome.I use this icon in my website. thank you very much.
- 60May 15th, 2009 11:55 pm
Great icons! Thanks!!
- 61May 19th, 2009 9:21 pm
Amazon icon
Thanks
- 62May 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.
- 63June 22nd, 2009 8:06 am
Thank for sharing, I love your free stuff :)
- 64June 27th, 2009 5:09 am
cute!!!!! super cute!!!!
- 65August 27th, 2009 11:25 am
Really, 64×64 is the smallest “icon” in this set? Oh please.
- 66August 29th, 2009 7:16 am
Nice…!!
thanx for sharing… - 67September 1st, 2009 3:50 pm
Thank! cute !
- 68September 6th, 2009 12:48 pm
you are verry nice………………….
- 69September 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!
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