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Heart: A Free Social Icon Set

By Smashing Editorial, October 27th, 2008 in Freebies | 123 Comments | Forum

Another day — another fresh freebie. Today we are glad to release Hearting Social Icon Set, a set of 22 social icons in .png and in resolutions 16×16, 32×32, 64×64. This set was designed by Aravind Ajith, the creator of TheDesignSuperHero.com, especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Download the icon set for free!

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. You can freely use it for both your private and commercial projects, including software, online services, templates and themes. The set may not be resold, sublicensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.

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Published in Freebies, October 27th, 2008
Tags: downloads, Freebies, icon set, icons, set

1.

Yuukan (October 27th, 2008, 1:14 am)

Nice set ! Good work :)
2.

Chris (October 27th, 2008, 1:31 am)

love it
3.

Lockque (October 27th, 2008, 1:33 am)

Lovely :) I’ll try this one out on one of my upcoming projects!
4.

Curt Simon Harlinghausen (October 27th, 2008, 1:40 am)

Pretty Nice. Lovely.

Stay tuned, Simon

Link [www.vinergy.org]
5.

Eli (October 27th, 2008, 1:52 am)

Not bad, although a bit generic :)
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Andreas (October 27th, 2008, 2:05 am)

Looks nice, but what do you need these icons for? Do you write about social platforms all day?
7.

Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz (October 27th, 2008, 2:08 am)

@Andreas: if you are a blogger, you may use them to increase your traffic by asking visitors to support you in social media sites.
8.

Thorsten (October 27th, 2008, 2:08 am)

How many of these social icon packs do you think the world needs???

Seems to be an easy way to get a great backlink for every designer.
Sit down for an hour, create a template, paste the social bookmarking logos in and thats it.
Boring…
9.

moritzpeuser.de (October 27th, 2008, 2:20 am)

The word “social” is spelled wrong in the preview ;)
Anyways, nice icons. They are really useful for me!
10.

lazy drunk (October 27th, 2008, 5:54 am)

nice work, will add them to my site
11.

Andrew (October 27th, 2008, 6:14 am)

Another quiet day at Smashing Magazine? There are too many of these social icon sets featuring on the site now. Worse still, this one’s a bit of a lazy example that was probably designed expressly for free adversising. V-boring.
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dev(Www,iHaCK.ASIA) (October 27th, 2008, 6:34 am)

This set icon really look good, love it ,thank for the creator & Smashingmagazine

Link [Www.iHaCK.ASIA]
13.

Michal skrzypecki (October 27th, 2008, 6:34 am)

Thorsten i TOTALY agree!
14.

mikemike (October 27th, 2008, 7:05 am)

Ridiculous, I’m not clicking any ads for this.
15.

Ryan Coughlin (October 27th, 2008, 8:21 am)

Great post! love the icons, I am going to throw them in to my layout I have up right now using RSS Stream WP plugin. I love these articles!

Thanks again!
16.

Edouard Stenger, France (October 27th, 2008, 8:40 am)

very nice set of icons. I may use it for my blog.

Keep up the good work !
17.

Stickers & Donuts (October 27th, 2008, 8:58 am)

More fun than squares!
18.

http://missrichie.blogg.no/ (October 27th, 2008, 9:10 am)

Link [missrichie.blogg.no]

loving this

but check this out Link [missrichie.blogg.no]

xoxo :)
19.

EP (October 27th, 2008, 9:17 am)

This looks like a good set to liven any blog. Very creative work! Thanks

Link [hubabee.com]
20.

Ahmet Burak Bal (October 27th, 2008, 9:25 am)

THANKS! :)
21.

liam (October 27th, 2008, 9:39 am)

Lovely set well done, nice work.
22.

Nathaniel (October 27th, 2008, 10:38 am)

I just don’t believe these are the quality that smashingmagazine usually holds, not a fan.
23.

Vinay Prajapati (October 27th, 2008, 11:53 am)

really cool.
24.

spongepuppy (October 27th, 2008, 6:10 pm)

With all due respect to the icon designers and Smashing’s editors/authors, these “social” icon sets are a massive waste of bandwidth. Thank you to Aravind Ajith, but perhaps your time would be better spent making something other than fadworthy icon sets.
25.

Aravind Ajith (October 27th, 2008, 9:23 pm)

If you love a post/site only you will bookmark/share, isn’t it?. Basic idea of these icons lies there.. I know already there are enough social icons out there. But this is something I was looking for when I redesigned my blog. I found nobody has released these kind of ‘heart shaped’ icons before.. So I just skipped off the idea and used some other icons. Later I thought if I design icons in this idea, there would be somebody who will be happy to use them.. Anyway, thanks for all the comments.. =)
26.

Marcio Rocon (October 28th, 2008, 5:44 am)

Navego já a algum tempo na SmashingMagazine e de fato este é o point do WebDesign..
Parabém pelo excelente trabalho!!!!
Link [imagensmix.com]
27.

Matt (October 28th, 2008, 7:52 am)

No MySpace heart?
28.

FBrushes.com (October 29th, 2008, 1:58 am)

Well done. gonna use some of those lovely icons on my site.
29.

Celina Gomes (October 29th, 2008, 3:40 am)

Thanks for this content. I will surely try this in my current project
30.

mohan (October 29th, 2008, 7:32 am)

Wow !! That was pretty Awesome ., well i have subscribed you !!

Regards ,
Link [rockstartemplate.com]
31.

Banago (October 31st, 2008, 3:03 am)

Great, I think I am going to use them in my site wplancer.com.
32.

Benedikt (November 1st, 2008, 2:12 am)

Great set! Thank you!
33.

Stephan (November 1st, 2008, 4:46 am)

Great work!
Someone have the psd-file to that icons? :-) So it is eassier to add more social networks.

Link [www.shblog.de]
34.

Keane (November 6th, 2008, 8:09 am)

Looks great!

I was just wondering. We’ve got a lot social bookmarking and rss icons for download, but the question is, “How many of these are really being put to use by other designers?”
35.

kvsreddy (November 11th, 2008, 5:01 pm)

Excellent work by you and we will be using these in our websites to honour your work
36.

rinkoboo (November 21st, 2008, 7:24 pm)

Thanks. I feel there is so much ‘love’ and giving on this site. Great work. Thanks again.
37.

Dot (January 31st, 2009, 12:08 pm)

I use these on my blog. I’ve looked through all these comments, and no one has mentioned that the 64px set does not contain a Digg icon, and the Digg icon in the 32px set is only 16 x 16 px. Can the designer post a corrected set? Thanks in advance.
38.

Waqas (April 19th, 2009, 11:49 pm)

Very Nice Collection

As “Dot” mentioned Digg Icon is missing. Please post Digg icon for 64×64 size
Thanks