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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.

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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.

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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.

Horror-preview in Tools Icons, Horror Icons and Twitter Icons

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.

Twitter-preview in Tools Icons, Horror Icons and Twitter Icons

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  1. 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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  3. 3
    Joel Kidd
    January 12th, 2009 10:08 am

    Nice set of icons.

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  4. 4
    Navdeep
    January 12th, 2009 10:20 am

    Amazing… love the twitter icons.

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  5. 5
    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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  7. 7
    Niktrix
    January 12th, 2009 10:46 am

    !Thanks !

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  8. 8
    Aravind
    January 12th, 2009 10:55 am

    Wow.. nice collection.. :)

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  9. 9
    Lin
    January 12th, 2009 11:08 am

    It’s cool, especially the horror icon set!
    Thanks!

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  10. 10
    Brian Collins
    January 12th, 2009 11:21 am

    OMG! David, those are the sweetest icons ever!

    Reply
  11. 11
    DanielM
    January 12th, 2009 11:26 am

    Nice set, thank you smashing ; )

    Reply
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    Chris Wallace
    January 12th, 2009 12:29 pm

    Very cool, I released a similar Twitter set a while back: Tweeties: a Free Twitter Icon Set

    Reply
  13. 13
    Ekios
    January 12th, 2009 2:17 pm

    Thank you for all your great stuffs !!

    Ekios from france :)

    Reply
  14. 14
    David
    January 12th, 2009 2:48 pm

    Thnks!

    Reply
  15. 15
    sujhon
    January 12th, 2009 2:49 pm

    awesome…I was looking for it..

    Reply
  16. 16
    Ricardo Sousa
    January 12th, 2009 3:30 pm

    Very Good set. Really enjoy the Twitter ones :D

    Reply
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    disgrafik
    January 12th, 2009 3:43 pm

    horror icons are amazing! good work man

    Reply
  18. 18
    Jhay
    January 12th, 2009 7:52 pm

    Awesome stuff! Thanks so much!

    Reply
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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

    Reply
  21. 21
    DMAfrondoza
    January 13th, 2009 5:30 am

    I totally love the Tools Icon Set!

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  22. 22
    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. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons)

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    심명현
    January 13th, 2009 10:30 pm

    어케씀;;;
    중딩인데도 해석을 못하겠심;;;

    Reply
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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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  26. 26
    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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  28. 28
    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.

    Reply
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    mindxstudio
    January 21st, 2009 8:31 pm

    It is really helpful for me as design element, thanks and very much.

    Reply
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    Henrique Artur Wint
    January 22nd, 2009 3:16 am

    Great twitter icons.
    Thanks

    Reply
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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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  32. 32
    Sangmi
    February 11th, 2009 8:29 pm

    thank you!!

    Reply
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    ghostevenings
    February 13th, 2009 10:00 pm

    Thank you great twitter icons.

    Reply
  34. 34
    ppat
    February 26th, 2009 12:48 pm

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

    Reply
  35. 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!

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    Donagh Mc Sweeney
    July 10th, 2009 3:09 am

    Love the Twitter icons! Thanks

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  38. 38
    Carina
    July 10th, 2009 2:14 pm

    Thank you so much for all these great links! I love the horror icon set! Maybe you also like to check out these Twitter icon freebies: http://www.carina-franz.com/freebies/twitter%20icons/freebies%20twitter%20icons.html

    Reply
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    Matt S.
    August 15th, 2009 6:16 am

    I redesigned my entire website with the sweet tool icons as my inspiration! http://www.jrdecks.com

    Thank you so much for posting this freebie post!

    Reply
  40. 40
    Tanozz
    August 21st, 2009 4:12 pm

    Magnifico!!! Genial! Gracias!

    Reply
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    twiggy
    August 25th, 2009 12:56 pm

    hey really cool icons i will use in merrve.com lol

    Reply
  42. 42
    alp
    August 31st, 2009 5:22 am

    i looking for rock music horror icons for mansonfan.net

    Reply
  43. 43
    Tom Bradshaw
    September 8th, 2009 2:55 am

    Creating new twitter icons has become a real challenge for designers. Check out my twitter icons here.

    Reply
  44. 44
    Zuakwagh
    September 11th, 2009 1:29 am

    I like the twitter icons.

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    Laeeq
    January 30th, 2010 4:32 pm

    Lovely Lovely Lovely :)

    Reply
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