Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

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In December we asked few designers to come up with some creative, beautiful, memorable yet usable icon sets. Some designers had a tight schedule and couldn’t get work done in time, but three designers agreed and delviered their high-quality Christmas icon sets — right in time before the deadline. In this post we are glad to release three beautiful high-quality Christmas icon sets — you can use them for free without any restrictions whatsoever.

You can use all sets 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.

Smashing Christmas Icon Set

The Russian design studio SoftFacade has chosen a quite unusual approach in design of the Christmas icons set. They put a lot of efforts to come up with some really unusual approach. While the icons exhibit designers’ close attention to the smallest details, they are also very colorful and can be used to decorate your weblog according to the Christmas theme.

Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

The set includes 10 icons — RSS, Shopping cart, Portfolio, Comment, Links, User, Calendar, Contacts, Social networks and Print. The icons are available in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and as illustrations in formats .png and .ico. The icons were designed exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers as the gift to the design community for Christmas. Download the set (.zip, 1 Mb)

Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

Here are some insights from the designers:

“We love Smashing Magazine and we read it regularly, which is why we were more than happy to design a Christmas icon set for the readers of Smashing Magazine. Together with the SM team we discussed what types of icons are more likely to be interesting and useful for a wide variety of SM readers, and decided to get creative to make the set literally stand out.

Afterwards we took some time to come up with metaphors that wouldn’t be as common and as boring as most Christmas icons are. We really wanted to design something memorable and outstanding. Once the rought drafts were done, we started to design icons in Photoshop.

In the end, icons have become very colorful, very unusual and with close attention to the smallest details — and, in our opinion, it perfectly fits to the atmosphere of Smashing Magazine. We are confident that these icons will help Smashing readers to get into the festive Christmas mood and make their web-sites even more beautiful.

With love to design from Russia, SoftFacade design studio.”

Dellixmas Christmas Icon Set

Wendell Fernandes, the designer behind the company LogoExpedite.com, created a more traditional Christmas icon set with 8 icons in dimensions 16×16px – 512×512px. The set contains icons Sitemap, Calendar, Search, Shopping cart, User and RSS. The Adobe Illustrator source image is available as well.

Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

Dock The Halls Icons Set

Paddy Donnelly, a designer from Ballycastle, Northern Ireland, has asked himself: why not ‘Christmassy’ up your dock and hang up the Adobe family’s stockings? This idea led to the ‘Dock the Halls’ icons set, a set of 20 icons that may put your dock or your blog in a festive mood. The Adobe Illustrator source file is available for free download as well.

Smashing Christmas Icon Sets

We express sincere gratitude to all designers for their time, their efforts and their good intentions. Thank you.

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. Vitaly is writer, speaker, author and editor-in-chief of Smashing Magazine, an online magazine dedicated to designers and developers.

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    Tagzeo.com

    December 17th, 2008 5:18 am

    Yeaaaayy !! Graet ! First

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    PaulRoman

    December 17th, 2008 5:23 am

    Now that’s a wonderful set !

    +1
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    Alen

    December 17th, 2008 5:26 am

    Also check VistaICO Christmas Pack
    LINK

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    Michael

    December 17th, 2008 5:29 am

    These are probably some of the most beautiful icons I have ever seen!

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    Alessandro

    December 17th, 2008 5:32 am

    Great article ;)

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    Shuuun

    December 17th, 2008 5:32 am

    i want to use them -.- gieeef me a project!!! ^^

    +1
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    Sylvia

    December 17th, 2008 5:44 am

    very nice icons – although maybe a little bit late, I will surely use some of them for my website!

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    TJ @ Smartblogtips

    December 17th, 2008 5:47 am

    Very Nice icon sets. Especially the first two.

    Thanks and Regards
    Thinkjayant

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    Martin Ringlein

    December 17th, 2008 5:47 am

    Great icons! The RSS in the snow globe is a great concept.

    We put together some Holiday Icons as well if you’re looking for a few extra: http://nclud.com/tidy/holidayicons/

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    Ben

    December 17th, 2008 5:59 am

    Oh God….. They are delicious !! Very fruity :D

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    DKumar M.

    December 17th, 2008 6:25 am

    Thanks for the beautiful set of icons.

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    Chris

    December 17th, 2008 6:43 am

    This is just in time for next year!

    I think I’m gonna have my website be like all those houses in the neighborhood that leave the Christmas lights up all year.

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    Vincent Garnier

    December 17th, 2008 8:34 am

    Softfacade’s pack is really awesome :)
    Featured on GuiPulp ;)

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    Steven

    December 17th, 2008 8:44 am

    404 – Not Found

    please

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    Declan ONeill

    December 17th, 2008 8:52 am

    Nice work Paddy, I am starting to become a fan of your work. It is great to see an Irish designer on Smashing.

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    Vitaly Friedman & Sven Lennartz

    December 17th, 2008 9:00 am

    @Steven (#13): we just checked all links. I couldn’t find a 404 error. Where did you find it?

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    Paddy

    December 17th, 2008 9:27 am

    Thanks SM for featuring my icons! :) You guys rock!

    @Declan Cheers, just doing my bit to raise the Irish design profile!

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    Vygantas

    December 17th, 2008 9:40 am

    I love you :)

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    Manko10

    December 17th, 2008 9:49 am

    Great!
    I have not need for it but it looks really cool, just watching it amazes me. ;-)

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    Drew

    December 17th, 2008 10:47 am

    404 on the first Download link for “Smashing Christmas Icon Set”.

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    maryam

    December 17th, 2008 10:58 am

    They are sooooooooooooo nice…magical

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    Navdeep

    December 17th, 2008 11:43 am

    Beautifulllll

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    karl

    December 17th, 2008 2:13 pm

    Full credit to SoftFacade. Their icon set is absolutely beautiful, unique and fun. Alot of work gone into these.
    If only I could eat pixels :)

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    Tony

    December 17th, 2008 6:21 pm

    http://media.smashingmagazine.com/images/smashing-christmas-icon-sets/smashing-christmas-icon-sets.zip

    link above is “404 – Not Found” :)
    btw, it’s nice post, i love it. Thanks anyway.

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    xien

    December 17th, 2008 6:42 pm

    I like these.So perfect!

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    DeveloperFox

    December 17th, 2008 9:55 pm

    Beautiful icon set.
    thanks

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    Vincent

    December 17th, 2008 10:34 pm

    These are so beautiful! :D I love the Santa mailbox!

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    Adrian Lazariuc

    December 18th, 2008 7:37 am

    Here there are also other free icons and there are also wallpapers created based on these icons: Free Christmas Icons in .AI format.

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    emilia tokes

    December 18th, 2008 4:29 pm

    This set is soooo cute and high quality !! Amazing job and thank you for sharing them :D

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    Rhett

    December 18th, 2008 4:40 pm

    My Illustrator CS3 says the dellixmas.ai is not a valid format and cannot be opened.

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    Bogdan

    December 18th, 2008 11:22 pm

    Wonderful icons.
    Thanks!

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    Liveo

    December 19th, 2008 10:43 am

    Thanks again. This site has provided me with lots of inspiration for my college teaching.

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    Liveo

    December 19th, 2008 10:43 am

    Thanks again. This site has provided me with lots of inspiration for my college teaching.

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    Harley

    December 19th, 2008 3:36 pm

    For the first icon set, to download use this link:
    http://78.46.108.98/images/smashing-christmas-icon-sets/smashing-christmas-icons-set.zip

    Its the second link at the end of the post.

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    b00m

    December 20th, 2008 6:54 am

    wow! this is great. Thanks smashingmag!

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    dani.var

    December 20th, 2008 8:13 pm

    Great icons. I know it’s a lot of work, thank you all so much for them. Happy Christmas and a Merry New Year. :o)

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    Nadun

    December 21st, 2008 8:30 pm

    cool set of icons… thanx in millions !!!

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    mr.white

    December 23rd, 2008 4:52 am

    nice collection!

    best wishes and happy xmas to all!

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    mghong

    December 23rd, 2008 8:12 am

    Thank and cool, i really searching alot of those c’mas icon, and this are really great stuff

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    Angie

    December 23rd, 2008 9:46 am

    The icon files (ico) are corrupt in this zip. :(

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    Remon

    December 26th, 2008 2:18 am

    nice

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    SugarPixel

    December 26th, 2008 6:45 am

    Wow, these are so fun. Thanks, SmashingMag!

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    Menow

    December 27th, 2008 1:11 pm

    Thank you bro… ;)

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    Aravind

    January 29th, 2009 11:39 pm

    Really great icons…. It helps me a lot :)

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    paltor

    August 2nd, 2009 9:41 pm

    Thank’s, it’s cool!

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    Joanie

    September 29th, 2009 5:26 pm

    Awesome, awesome, awesome!! Thank you so much!!!

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    Weee

    November 5th, 2009 7:57 pm

    Just about time!! They’re just so beautiful. Feels like Santa will come 2night :)

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    theComplex

    December 1st, 2009 11:21 am

    How festive and beautifully designed!

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    victor

    December 1st, 2009 2:04 pm

    This is very nice.

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    turismogaycuenca

    December 1st, 2009 2:32 pm

    Gracias a vosotros, tengo una web muy elegante y bonita

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    LuCy

    December 1st, 2009 3:07 pm

    HOLA! Gracias por compartir esto con nosotros…..very cool…Feliz navidad a todos.
    Buon Natale a tutti. Merry Christmas to all

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    jhony

    December 1st, 2009 3:22 pm

    gracias men por las imagenes las puedo suvir am pagina con tu permiso man gracias esperava unas navideñas bay

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    Marian

    December 1st, 2009 3:35 pm

    Gracias por los regalos y por esta web maravillosa. FELIZ NAVIDAD

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    carolina

    December 1st, 2009 4:51 pm

    copadisimo el caledario!!! quiero descargar esas imagenes me encantaron re tiernas son!

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    eliza

    December 1st, 2009 8:59 pm

    Ok , enterada y descargando ;)…. estare al pendiente.. feliz navidad para todos……..
    tu tambien regala algo todos los dias :
    Hagámonos mutuamente el más precioso y sanador regalo: el del amor incondicional por nosotros mismos y por los demás.
    atte. ely

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    CUSTODIA PATERNA

    December 2nd, 2009 2:19 am

    La web que administro no es precisamente proclive a las fiestas navideñas. Enhorabuena por la pagina y felices fiestas

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    laprospe

    December 2nd, 2009 2:25 am

    Gracias por el regalo tan adecuado a la fechas que atravesamos. Enhorabuena por esta excelente idea que nos facilitará a todos el trabajo

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    Jose Luis Pérez Vazquez

    December 2nd, 2009 9:21 am

    Muchas gracias por este tipo de regalos, ya que la temporada lo amerita, gracias por la idea que nos ayudará a decorar nuestra página.

    feliz navidad.

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    jorge reyes

    December 2nd, 2009 11:03 am

    muy bueno genial descargando ….

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    Vulpen

    December 12th, 2009 3:35 am

    Thanks man,

    I was searching around and fount this post. Loads of other icons are quiet crappy to be honest. These look very nice.

    Have a great christmas, best wishes for 2010!

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    Risa

    December 16th, 2009 6:03 pm

    Love these, thank you and Happy Holidays xox

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    Ryan Bollenbach

    December 19th, 2009 1:23 pm

    One of these icons are coming in very handy for my quick little Christmas card :D.

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    Orla brosnan

    December 22nd, 2009 4:09 am

    Love these icons…. great work :) HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Awesome346

    April 9th, 2010 11:27 am

    These icons and pics + cartoons are awsome!!

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    elsa

    April 10th, 2010 8:57 am

    i love

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    ng

    April 29th, 2010 3:37 pm

    Thank you so much for these icons, I’ll use them when Christmas comes =)

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    Morgan and Me

    October 16th, 2010 7:05 am

    Yay….wonderful set…in time to create a real christmas spirit! Thanks!

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    maeda

    November 25th, 2010 4:55 pm

    naturally beautiful
    very awesome!
    this is what we call
    a touch of art!
    thank you so much!

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    PaulRoman

    December 17th, 2008 5:23 am

    Now that’s a wonderful set !

    +1
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    Shuuun

    December 17th, 2008 5:32 am

    i want to use them -.- gieeef me a project!!! ^^

    +1

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