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Tools Icons, Horror Icons and Twitter Icons
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
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- 2January 12th, 2009 10:08 am
Thanks for the icons. Loved the Twitter ones!
- 3January 12th, 2009 10:08 am
Nice set of icons.
- 4January 12th, 2009 10:20 am
Amazing… love the twitter icons.
- 5January 12th, 2009 10:20 am
wow really nice sets of icons, especially like the tools – thanks alot smashing for finding these!
- 6January 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.
- 7January 12th, 2009 10:46 am
!Thanks !
- 8January 12th, 2009 10:55 am
Wow.. nice collection.. :)
- 9January 12th, 2009 11:08 am
It’s cool, especially the horror icon set!
Thanks! - 10January 12th, 2009 11:21 am
OMG! David, those are the sweetest icons ever!
- 11January 12th, 2009 11:26 am
Nice set, thank you smashing ; )
- 12January 12th, 2009 12:29 pm
Very cool, I released a similar Twitter set a while back: Tweeties: a Free Twitter Icon Set
- 13January 12th, 2009 2:17 pm
Thank you for all your great stuffs !!
Ekios from france :)
- 14January 12th, 2009 2:48 pm
Thnks!
- 15January 12th, 2009 2:49 pm
awesome…I was looking for it..
- 16January 12th, 2009 3:30 pm
Very Good set. Really enjoy the Twitter ones :D
- 17January 12th, 2009 3:43 pm
horror icons are amazing! good work man
- 18January 12th, 2009 7:52 pm
Awesome stuff! Thanks so much!
- 19January 12th, 2009 9:35 pm
lovely very nice tweet bird is so sweet
- 20January 12th, 2009 9:36 pm
lovely very nice tweet bird is so sweet
- 21January 13th, 2009 5:30 am
I totally love the Tools Icon Set!
- 22January 13th, 2009 8:56 am
Funny ones
- 23January 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)
- 24January 13th, 2009 10:30 pm
어케씀;;;
중딩인데도 해석을 못하겠심;;; - 25January 14th, 2009 5:58 am
Thanks once again for the fantastic quality icons – sure to come in handy somewhere.
Craig
- 26January 14th, 2009 1:57 pm
Tool PNGS have white background ???
- 27January 16th, 2009 10:11 pm
nice icon.. I already download them
- 28January 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.
- 29January 21st, 2009 8:31 pm
It is really helpful for me as design element, thanks and very much.
- 30January 22nd, 2009 3:16 am
Great twitter icons.
Thanks - 31January 29th, 2009 7:30 am
These are wicked awesome…the horror ones, quite literally.
- 32February 11th, 2009 8:29 pm
thank you!!
- 33February 13th, 2009 10:00 pm
Thank you great twitter icons.
- 34February 26th, 2009 12:48 pm
amazing icons i m using twitter icons on my site. gr8 stuff. thanks
- 35March 2nd, 2009 5:01 am
Nice Icon sets. I am planning to use that twitter bird in my website. Thank you for it.
- 36March 21st, 2009 2:36 pm
Horror Icon Set is awesome!
- 37July 10th, 2009 3:09 am
Love the Twitter icons! Thanks
- 38July 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
- 39August 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!
- 40August 21st, 2009 4:12 pm
Magnifico!!! Genial! Gracias!
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- 43September 8th, 2009 2:55 am
Creating new twitter icons has become a real challenge for designers. Check out my twitter icons here.
- 44September 11th, 2009 1:29 am
I like the twitter icons.
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