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Tools Icons, Horror Icons and Twitter Icons

By Smashing Editorial, January 12th, 2009 in Freebies | 60 Comments | Forum

We continue to deliver fresh high-quality freebies to our readers and we continue to pursue the diversity of subjects that we are going to cover on Smashing Magazine. From the beginning of the year each icon set is supposed to be dedicated to some specific theme or topic that may turn out to be useful for your next project. Today we are releasing 3 free high-quality icon sets.

Tools Icon Set

Tools always come in handy. For instance, if you are designing an online-store you may need some easily recognizable tool icons to indicate some categories. And this is where this set, designed by David Mottram, may help you out. This set contains 8 free icons (bookmark, caliper, gear, hammer, screwdriver, toolbox, tools, window) in the format .png in resolutions 64×64px, 128×128px and 256×256px.

As usual, the set is available for free download and can be used without any restrictions whatsoeve. 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.

download the set (.zip, 0.5 Mb)

Horror Icon Set

If you are designing some project that is supposed to be scary - be it a Halloween-themed site, a private blog or an online-store with some particular merchandise - you may need some beautiful yet scary icons to set up the atmosphere on your site. David Arazim created a horror icon set for this very purpose. The set contains 8 icons (axe, bat, eye, grave, gun, jason, skull, voodoo) and is available for free download and use.

download the set (.zip, 0.73 Mb)

Twitter Icon Set

Currently everybody is speaking about Twitter. This lifestreaming application is supposed to be the next big thing. In fact, we added a “tweet about us”-image at the bottom of our posts. But maybe you would like to add something more colorful to your blog? This is why we release this icons set, a set of 6 cute tweet-birds, designed by Gopal Raju. The package contains high-quality 360×360 transparent .png-files. The set is available for free download and use.

download the set (.zip, 1.27 Mb)
release post on Productivedreams.com

Published in Freebies, January 12th, 2009

1.

Scott at Realepicurean (January 12th, 2009, 10:07 am)

The twitter icons are cool - might find a use for the “follow me” one on my blog. Thanks!
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Philip Downer (January 12th, 2009, 10:08 am)

Thanks for the icons. Loved the Twitter ones!
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Joel Kidd (January 12th, 2009, 10:08 am)

Nice set of icons.
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Navdeep (January 12th, 2009, 10:20 am)

Amazing… love the twitter icons.
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penflare (January 12th, 2009, 10:20 am)

wow really nice sets of icons, especially like the tools - thanks alot smashing for finding these!
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Jurgi (January 12th, 2009, 10:21 am)

I appreciate the great sets of art, you share with us, but it would be good to express licence more precisely with each theme/set. Many times I’m not sure under what restrictions (if any) I may use them. The bes idea would be to use one of standard licenses, like Creative Commons.
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Niktrix (January 12th, 2009, 10:46 am)

!Thanks !
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Aravind (January 12th, 2009, 10:55 am)

Wow.. nice collection.. :)
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Lin (January 12th, 2009, 11:08 am)

It’s cool, especially the horror icon set!
Thanks!
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Brian Collins (January 12th, 2009, 11:21 am)

OMG! David, those are the sweetest icons ever!
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DanielM (January 12th, 2009, 11:26 am)

Nice set, thank you smashing ; )
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Chris Wallace (January 12th, 2009, 12:29 pm)

Very cool, I released a similar Twitter set a while back: Link [www.chris-wallace.com]
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Ekios (January 12th, 2009, 2:17 pm)

Thank you for all your great stuffs !!

Ekios from france :)
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David (January 12th, 2009, 2:48 pm)

Thnks!
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sujhon (January 12th, 2009, 2:49 pm)

awesome…I was looking for it..
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Ricardo Sousa (January 12th, 2009, 3:30 pm)

Very Good set. Really enjoy the Twitter ones :D
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disgrafik (January 12th, 2009, 3:43 pm)

horror icons are amazing! good work man
18.

Jhay (January 12th, 2009, 7:52 pm)

Awesome stuff! Thanks so much!
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gaurav (January 12th, 2009, 9:35 pm)

lovely very nice tweet bird is so sweet
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gaurav (January 12th, 2009, 9:36 pm)

lovely very nice tweet bird is so sweet
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DMAfrondoza (January 13th, 2009, 5:30 am)

I totally love the Tools Icon Set!
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Didier (January 13th, 2009, 8:56 am)

Funny ones
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theneemies (January 13th, 2009, 3:06 pm)

Like everyone here, we’re huge fans of Smashing Magazine, and are especially grateful for the fantastic resources you uncover. While you do list the usage rules, it would be super if you could encourage the contributors you feature to add their work to a repository such as Wikimedia Commons (e.g. Link [commons.wikimedia.org])
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심명현 (January 13th, 2009, 10:30 pm)

어케씀;;;
중딩인데도 해석을 못하겠심;;;
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Abrishca Digital Media (January 14th, 2009, 5:58 am)

Thanks once again for the fantastic quality icons - sure to come in handy somewhere.

Craig
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Joe (January 14th, 2009, 1:57 pm)

Tool PNGS have white background ???
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indr@ (January 16th, 2009, 10:11 pm)

nice icon.. I already download them
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Brent Riggs (January 18th, 2009, 12:49 am)

I use a set of icons on my blog that are similar; these are REALLY nice. Thanks for putting them out there. I may try to incorporate them into the next issue of Serious.Life Magazine.
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mindxstudio (January 21st, 2009, 8:31 pm)

It is really helpful for me as design element, thanks and very much.
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Henrique Artur Wint (January 22nd, 2009, 3:16 am)

Great twitter icons.
Thanks
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Adam Smith (January 29th, 2009, 7:30 am)

These are wicked awesome…the horror ones, quite literally.
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Sangmi (February 11th, 2009, 8:29 pm)

thank you!!
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ghostevenings (February 13th, 2009, 10:00 pm)

Thank you great twitter icons.
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ppat (February 26th, 2009, 12:48 pm)

amazing icons i m using twitter icons on my site. gr8 stuff. thanks
35.

Muthuswamy K (March 2nd, 2009, 5:01 am)

Nice Icon sets. I am planning to use that twitter bird in my website. Thank you for it.
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Sławek (March 21st, 2009, 2:36 pm)

Horror Icon Set is awesome!