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Practika: A Free Icon Set

By Smashing Editorial, September 23rd, 2008 in Freebies | 207 Comments | Forum

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).

Published in Freebies, September 23rd, 2008
Tags: free, icon set, icons

1.

Gipnoz (September 23rd, 2008, 2:06 pm)

Thanks a lot SM! Once more!))
first by the way
2.

Arnar (September 23rd, 2008, 2:08 pm)

One of the most useful free icon collections I’ve seen here. Nice work!
3.

Temur (September 23rd, 2008, 2:10 pm)

I’m third so what? Yay! icons……….free icons!
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?
5.

Zarathustra (September 23rd, 2008, 2:47 pm)

Slightly less useless than the last lot. An envelope less useless.
6.

ArtHack (September 23rd, 2008, 4:12 pm)

Really good, so I need the resources, thank you
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…
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 :)
9.

Sam (September 23rd, 2008, 9:15 pm)

Great RSS icon! It looks wonderful! :D
10.

Mike (September 23rd, 2008, 11:12 pm)

RSS on smashing does not work! Do something with it, now !
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. :-)
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! ;)
13.

Nathan Beck (September 24th, 2008, 12:06 am)

Beautiful, thanks SM!
14.

Eli (September 24th, 2008, 12:23 am)

Beautiful set. Could be really useful for a website/Blog design.
15.

Sarbjit Singh (September 24th, 2008, 1:38 am)

Hi,

The RSS subscription is not working.

“Live bookmark feed failed to load”. Check it!!
16.

Justin (www.DotNetMushroom.com) (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 !
17.

ptarmigan (September 24th, 2008, 2:19 am)

Nice graphics. Cute bird ;)
18.

simplechris (September 24th, 2008, 3:01 am)

…thanks smashing, theres no pleasing some people…
19.

pickupjojo (September 24th, 2008, 3:39 am)

The Twitter/Twitterrific icon is so cute, thanks for sharing!
My new set of icons. :)
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
21.

Bob (September 24th, 2008, 5:34 am)

These are great. I’ll definitely be putting these to good use. Thanks Smashing and Dryicons!
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.
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?
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???
25.

Takumi86 (September 24th, 2008, 8:54 am)

Thanks a lot for this, will try to put this for my Desktop Icon
26.

Cosmi (September 24th, 2008, 9:01 am)

I am 24th, so what? :-|
Anyway, nice icons.
27.

Lillan (September 24th, 2008, 11:22 am)

Tnx ;)
28.

Kate (September 24th, 2008, 10:19 pm)

loving these :D
29.

javed Khalil (September 25th, 2008, 3:08 am)

Lovely icons. Beautiful work. Amazing…
30.

Bart (September 25th, 2008, 6:45 am)

Thanks a lot!
31.

Savocado (September 25th, 2008, 7:46 am)

Thanks, I like the birdie the best!
32.

Munki (September 25th, 2008, 12:00 pm)

These are really great icons :)

Lola | Link [munki.se]
33.

Arnold (September 26th, 2008, 12:01 am)

Thanks a lot!
34.

chokilala (September 26th, 2008, 2:13 am)

thanks. really appreciate this :)
35.

Danh ba web 2.0 (September 27th, 2008, 4:43 am)

Thanks for share ! I like it very much
36.

trgy (September 27th, 2008, 8:37 am)

thanks smashing magazine :) cute bird ;)
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 :)
38.

NetOperator Wibby (October 3rd, 2008, 12:50 pm)

This is excellent! The icons look fantastic.
39.

pankaj (October 4th, 2008, 1:36 am)

hi
i rely like to this icon
in like ih
thanks
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
41.

Praveen Nair (October 6th, 2008, 8:15 pm)

thanks……. again
42.

Raj (October 14th, 2008, 8:34 pm)

very nice icons… thanx!
43.

SOS Media (October 18th, 2008, 1:40 pm)

Thank you, this is beautiful!
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…
45.

Nivea - Brasil (November 10th, 2008, 10:31 am)

Very, very good!!
many tks =)
46.

George (November 18th, 2008, 2:00 pm)

Thanks alot very nice =]
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!
48.

Duc Ban (November 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: Link [dl.getdropbox.com].
49.

shafwan` (November 25th, 2008, 4:33 am)

pls put more logo’s in this
50.

eric tan (December 2nd, 2008, 10:25 pm)

these icons are super!
51.

pram (January 19th, 2009, 5:33 am)

Thaanks…
this is very useful… :)
52.

Wazdesign (January 20th, 2009, 9:32 pm)

Great Collection really High quality .. keep it up..
53.

carrie (February 16th, 2009, 5:53 pm)

Thanks very much.
54.

Tinh (February 16th, 2009, 7:55 pm)

Great collection, thanks for sharing
55.

Laura-Jane (March 23rd, 2009, 4:17 am)

Thanks! Great work, no restrictions. Thanks again and keep ‘em coming!
56.

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!!!!!!
57.

Jumanji (April 11th, 2009, 11:31 am)

very good indeed thanks!
58.

Ben (April 15th, 2009, 9:31 am)

Hey, do I see the Twitterific bird there? :O
59.

winD (May 5th, 2009, 1:31 am)

this job really awesome.I use this icon in my website. thank you very much.
60.

rx_queen (May 15th, 2009, 11:55 pm)

Great icons! Thanks!!
61.

Dushyant (May 19th, 2009, 9:21 pm)

Amazon icon

Thanks
62.

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.
63.

Hesham (June 22nd, 2009, 8:06 am)

Thank for sharing, I love your free stuff :)
64.

MamaJoy (June 27th, 2009, 5:09 am)

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