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Friday Freebies: Flavours Icon Set And Cute Tweeters Icon Set
We continue to deliver fresh high-quality freebies to our readers, and we continue to pursue the diversity of subjects that we like to cover on Smashing Magazine. Since the beginning of the year, each icon set has been dedicated to a specific theme or topic that could be useful in your next project. Today, we are releasing two free high-quality icon sets.
[Offtopic: by the way, did you know that we are publishing a Smashing eBook Series? The brand new eBook #3 is Mastering Photoshop For Web Design, written by our Photoshop-expert Thomas Giannattasio.]
Flavours Icon Set
Oliver Twardowski, a graphic designer from Bonn, Germany, has put in a lot of time and effort to release this handy icon set especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. His set, aimed to help designers in their Web and user interface designs, contains 177 icons in a resolution of 48×48 pixels. The files are available for in the PNG and PSD sources, so you can modify the files as you wish.
As usual, the set is available as a free download and can be used for any purposes without any restrictions whatsoever. 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, sub-licensed, 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, 2.0 Mb)
- Download the PSD sources (.psd, Zip, 5.9 Mb)
Behind the scenes
As usual, here are some insights from the designer himself:
In November 2008 I designed and released my first icon set, Sketch’d up!. This set was 100% vector-based and contained over 100 icons. After finishing it, I knew exactly what was the next task on my list. I wanted to create a pixel-based set of icons for websites and Web applications. For the size of the icons, I choose 48x48px, because for me this is the perfect size to fit on a website.
I never thought that it would be such a hard task to create an icon based on pixels that says what it has to say. Pixel by pixel, every single icon of “Flavour” was created over the weeks.
I am personally pretty satisfied with what came of it in the end. And I do really hope that you like it, too! Would be a pleasure to hear and see where you used it. Just drop me a line at icons [at] addictedtocoffee [dot] de. And who knows, maybe there’s a Part 2 of the “Flavour icon set” already in my head…
All the best from Bonn, Germany,
Oliver Twardowski
Thank you, Oliver, for your great work! We hope the second part of the set comes soon!
Cute Tweeters Icon Set
This set was designed by the talented Mirjami Manninen, an illustrator from Finland who released the beautiful RSS feed set Feed Me Animals on Smashing Magazine last year. This new set contains eight transparent PNG icons for Twitter, available in resolutions of 128×128 pixels, 256×256 and 512×512. The sources are in EPS files (for CS4 and CS3), PSD files and AI files (for CS4).
Again, the set is available as a free download and can be used for any purpose without any restrictions whatsoever. 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, sub-licensed, rented, transferred or otherwise made available for use. Please link to this article if you would like to spread the word.
- Large preview (JPG, 0.4 Mb)
- Download the set (.zip, 2.2 Mb)
- Download the sources (PSD, AI, EPS, .zip, 13,1 Mb)
Behind the scenes
As usual, here are some insights from the designer herself:
I am an illustrator from Finland. While drawing for one design competition that was about Twitter, I started to really like this little bird, and decided to create a whole set for Smashing Magazine’s readers. I am very excited of the mesh tool in illustrator, andIi want to encourage all designers to try it. I have found it very helpful in my icon design. Greetings to all Smashing Magazine readers!
Mirjami Manninen
Thanks, Miriam, we really appreciate your efforts!
Suggestions for particular icon sets?
What icons would you like to be released on Smashing Magazine next? What are you looking for? And, more importantly, what kind of icons shouldn’t we release anymore? We appreciate your input in the comments to this post!
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The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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January 23rd, 2009 7:24 amAwesome icons!
- 3January 23rd, 2009 7:27 am
lovely
- 4January 23rd, 2009 7:29 am
I laughed at the twitter icons :D
- 5January 23rd, 2009 7:29 am
Nice icons sets. Thanks SM !
- 6January 23rd, 2009 7:31 am
Lovin’ the Flavour. Thanks!
- 7January 23rd, 2009 7:37 am
Nice icons!
I would like to see a set for wordpress site developers – a range of icons we can use to customise the admin console for end users – nice and smart looking icons preferably!
Also….icons in png format would be great!
- 8January 23rd, 2009 7:39 am
Again and again. Genius freebies.
Great icons.Have a great weekend.
- 9January 23rd, 2009 7:48 am
I would love to see a set of icons covering the basics of web applications from an administration perspective; a lot of the sets floating around right now tend to be focused on the front end – let’s give the back end come love too people! :D Awesome icons by the way, thank you!
- 10January 23rd, 2009 7:50 am
great icons, excellent work!
- 11January 23rd, 2009 8:31 am
Freebies time again !!!
I like the Tweeters Icon Set which is soo cute and refrashing.Thanks SM.
DKumar M.
- 12January 23rd, 2009 9:02 am
Seriously Twitter icons? What a revolutionary technology. I say things, you see them. Come on.
- 13January 23rd, 2009 9:28 am
Nice set. Thanks.
- 14January 23rd, 2009 9:51 am
WOW! – awesome work mirkku!! those are very nice
- 15January 23rd, 2009 9:52 am
Tweet Tweet Tweet !!!!!
luuuuv ‘em !!!!!
nice SET !!!! :D - 16January 23rd, 2009 10:33 am
Twitter!!! Haha nice one
- 17January 23rd, 2009 10:50 am
These are great !
I would like sets that can be used together on the various toolbars.
I would like to see more of this size, 48, and up.
I would like to see some that could be put on folders for things we really save, to customize the folders with the icon to match.
I would not like to see the same old “office” type. - 18January 23rd, 2009 10:52 am
Oops! I meant things to customize folders when you go to “properties” with the icon to match.
Sorry to repeat the above. I could not delete this one - 19January 23rd, 2009 10:57 am
The flavour icon set totally rocks, it’s perfect for many of the things I do regularly! =)
- 20January 23rd, 2009 12:30 pm
A great set of icons. I love the flavor icons and hope for a second part.
I’m not in Twitter but these icons bring me a smile. Thanks SM. - 21January 23rd, 2009 1:04 pm
Those Twitter icons are gorgeous. LOVE!
- 22January 23rd, 2009 1:08 pm
Awesome-O! They look brilliant.
- 23January 23rd, 2009 2:47 pm
Sweet Twitter’s icons. I love it!
- 24January 23rd, 2009 4:37 pm
what program(s) are best for creating really clear icons?
also i hear that when vector images are shrunk up tiny like 16×16 theyre unclear.
whenever i make a raster 16×16 icon it looks horrible. - 25January 23rd, 2009 4:40 pm
Thanks. These Rock!
- 26January 23rd, 2009 5:53 pm
The flavour icons are beautiful, really well crafted.
As to the question on what should be next, it would be great (as a working web designer) to get more useful icons for everyday use for sites and applications. Things that represent a process that you would typically like to assist in explaining with an icon (arrows, actions, help, mail, contact etc.)
And with what to include less, i think the social media icons and twitter stuff has been absolutely done to death (even though the ones listed are also very nice), maybe less of this?
- 27January 23rd, 2009 7:38 pm
Oooo… That bird is sooo cute..may be the cutest twitter icons I have ever seen.. right ?
- 28January 23rd, 2009 8:01 pm
Wow! Twitter’s icons. I love it!
- 29January 23rd, 2009 8:23 pm
Some of the nicest Twitter icons I have seen! Thank you!!
- 30January 23rd, 2009 8:56 pm
Loving the icons. I’m sure it won’t be hard to find something to use them in. THanks for sharing, Smashing!
- 31January 24th, 2009 12:18 am
nice collection
- 32January 24th, 2009 12:18 am
As usual, you are great! Thanks…
- 33January 24th, 2009 12:55 am
Its a great resource…
Thanks!
- 34January 24th, 2009 4:56 am
this bird is gay
- 35January 24th, 2009 6:43 am
Please make some great eCommerce icons. :)
- 36January 24th, 2009 8:37 am
These are some of the best (for my purposes) pngs I have seen. Thanks for such a great job. Looking forward to your second release, too.
- 37January 24th, 2009 9:02 am
again with this twitter? :\
- 38January 24th, 2009 10:54 am
Once upon a time, back in the wayfaring nomadic tribes, someone designed an icon of racist, hateful and violent things while the icy, glassine winds from the North pummeled down on the Vikings’ horny-type helmets.
And that icon caused the vikings to pillage and murder.
Let’s not get ahead of ourselves, guys. There’s nothing I like more than Twitter. But when will it stop? When will all of this twittering finally end?
Love to all,
Philip Brightmore,
Champion Dog breeder - 39January 24th, 2009 1:39 pm
Very nice and usefull, thanx!
- 40January 24th, 2009 2:06 pm
Very nice! Thank you.
- 41January 24th, 2009 2:07 pm
How about some Web Application icon sets? That, or a collection of lots of styles of the most comment icons? (Home, About, Information, etc.)
- 42January 24th, 2009 2:24 pm
Great stuff, oliver! thanks so much!
- 43January 24th, 2009 4:20 pm
Thanks for these! I’ve always loved your freebies!
- 44January 24th, 2009 8:39 pm
These are fantastic. Thank you very much to the designers for taking the time to produce these, and to Smashing Magazine for sharing.
- 45January 24th, 2009 11:26 pm
thanks,… useful
- 46January 25th, 2009 2:37 am
Wow ! Those are wonderful..i’ll use then for sure ;)
- 47January 25th, 2009 6:22 am
As always, SM you are a very important resource for us web designers/developers. You help the industry evolve and transform. Keep it up guys.
- 48January 25th, 2009 7:49 am
Those twitter icons are the cutestest I’ve ever seen ! You rocks :D
It would have been nice to also have a “follow us !” along with the “follow me !”.Thanks for this set :)
- 49January 25th, 2009 8:08 am
Very nice icons.
- 50January 25th, 2009 11:40 am
excellent…collection, thank you very much..keep it up man
- 51January 25th, 2009 7:43 pm
I can use this icon pack to our user interface panel.
Website panel can be without icons but if i use icon , panel really look like beatifull.
Thanks to smashingmagazine :)
My Website - 52January 25th, 2009 7:44 pm
Oliver’s the man! Thanks to you and to Smashingmagazine.com! You really inspired us.
- 53January 26th, 2009 7:35 am
Thanks so much for taking the time to produce these and then give them to us. Both sets are absolutely fantastic – can’t wait to use them,
Nikki - 54January 26th, 2009 12:17 pm
Nice!
Icon set suggestion: a set of government icons to celebrate the new administration’s support for better government websites.
- 55January 26th, 2009 4:27 pm
Very poor, way below standard smashing!
- 56January 27th, 2009 7:20 am
gracias!
- 57January 27th, 2009 10:41 am
Really sick of the twitter icons. The others are great, thanks!
- 58January 27th, 2009 10:53 am
suuuper cool :) thanks a lot :)
- 59January 27th, 2009 3:36 pm
Since you’re asking, I’d actually like a set of icons that relates to the services an ISP would offer, e.g.
* E-mail
* WWW hosting
* VoIP
* Hardware setup
* Web login
* The above for both business and personal packages.
* Contact us, FAQ, etc
* Anything else you can think ofI imagine that these icons could be based on web.png of the Flavours icon set.
- 60January 27th, 2009 9:45 pm
Flavors is the best icon set you’ve ever released here, thanks!
- 61January 28th, 2009 4:58 am
But I have to be picky (in published work)
all .psd ressources?
Still, that weirdness aside (typos always hurt more in images) these are super sweet
- 62January 28th, 2009 8:26 pm
THX :)
- 63January 29th, 2009 2:44 pm
Chargebacks happen for a lot of reasons, not always within the adult merchant’s control.
laptop pc ibm - 64January 29th, 2009 10:56 pm
Been lurking here for a long time and thought I would pop in and say that I really enjoyed this article. I found a few of these tools very useful…and glad that some folks find type important on the web.
- 65February 2nd, 2009 9:41 am
I would really like to see some mapping icons! Like atm’s, tank stations, restaurants, cinemas, etc etc.
- 66February 2nd, 2009 7:10 pm
omg thank you so very much for these! they’re awesome :)
- 67February 3rd, 2009 8:24 pm
Those are some spiffy icons, thanks for sharing. I love them!
- 68February 4th, 2009 3:50 am
Best Twitter icons yet!! Changing mine right now. I’d love to see icons for community resources – like movies, restaurants, local deals, sports, etc. Can you tell I’m working on a community project?
- 69February 4th, 2009 1:19 pm
すばらしい
- 70February 5th, 2009 4:17 am
Would like to suggest some church smilies such as praying, bible, cross, church, pulpit, etc… in an icon set.
Thanks this site is awesome!
- 71February 7th, 2009 3:14 am
I love your work, thanks so much for sharing in.In answer to your question, I help run a few sports related boards and blogs and sports related icons are so so hard to find. In particular to do with our love of horse racing here in Australia. You would have a free place to stay in Oz if you ever made one available(jockey silks, binoculars, horses,scales, money, trophies etc…..Cheers
- 72February 10th, 2009 5:43 pm
I love all of the icons here at Smashing Magazine. I would love to see some icons that look library/bookish. Going to start using these and/or the heart ones tonight!
- 73February 13th, 2009 12:34 pm
Love the Flavacons. I downloaded both sets.
I’ll be sure to share this link with my peeps!
Thanks for the freebies. - 74February 28th, 2009 10:01 pm
I love all of the icons here at Smashing Magazine.^^
thanks~ - 75March 5th, 2009 8:53 pm
beautiful icons
- 76March 6th, 2009 10:33 am
Planning on using some of the Flavour icons as part of a partial redesign of NPR National Public Radio websites. Nice work.
- 77March 16th, 2009 7:38 pm
Sidekick LX icons? Something for the “other” phone users would be GREAT!
- 78March 24th, 2009 5:37 pm
Great icons. Thanks
- 79March 27th, 2009 1:12 pm
Really cute & useful! Thank you!
As for the very few who don’t get twitter….there’s no need to be negative here…
- 80March 27th, 2009 8:38 pm
I love the twitter icons! thank you!
- 81April 7th, 2009 7:51 pm
very cute! lovem, thanks
- 82April 15th, 2009 2:41 pm
So cute – excellent artwork.
Thanks so much!
Jill
- 83April 16th, 2009 11:41 am
sono icone bellissime, complimenti davvero
Grazia - 84April 20th, 2009 2:19 pm
Lots of great Twitter birds icons here:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/twitterbirds/Including my own Twitter Bird illustration:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/matthamm/3383916444/in/pool-twitterbirds - 85April 20th, 2009 4:41 pm
excellent Work . Very Nice
God Bless you and thanks for sharing
SUB! - 86April 24th, 2009 10:36 am
Thank for share. theme very beautiful
- 87April 29th, 2009 5:24 pm
Thanks so much for these wonderful icon sets. I know I will be putting them to good use!
- 88May 1st, 2009 8:29 am
Thank you! These are AWESOME!
- 89May 2nd, 2009 10:26 am
haha… the twitter icons are really cute and funny. i’ll choose one of them for my site. big thanks!
- 90May 6th, 2009 12:30 pm
Thanks a lot!
- 91May 8th, 2009 5:13 am
I manage the website for a financial company and I have found this site to be useful for so many things and I love the creative ideas, but I would love to see a professional/corporate icon set, sleek and simple. Thanks!
- 92May 18th, 2009 12:35 pm
Cute icons! Thank YOU!
- 93May 18th, 2009 2:48 pm
another great roundup from SM! thanks!
- 94May 20th, 2009 3:49 pm
Loved the twitter birds here! I made a few too, so check it out even if you dont like twitter but like birds: Cute Twitter Birds
- 95May 20th, 2009 6:43 pm
Thanks so much. These are just adorable!
- 96May 26th, 2009 11:13 pm
Thank for share cooling icon set that useful to me
- 97June 4th, 2009 2:08 am
awesome…. it made my day…. :)
- 98June 20th, 2009 1:26 pm
cool twitter icons.
Thanks
Fabio
- 99June 22nd, 2009 11:59 pm
Love the coffee cup one!! Will definitely use it on my blog!!! Thanks!!
- 100June 27th, 2009 2:43 am
Thanx for very nice icon’s
- 101July 4th, 2009 8:12 pm
Guys, those are by far the cutest icons I ve ever seen, I only use them in my pages, thank you so much, and sorry for taking so long to come over ;)
- 102July 9th, 2009 10:42 pm
These are perfect. Thank you!
- 103July 11th, 2009 1:20 am
50 free twitter icon and button sets here
http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2009/07/11/50-free-twitter-icon-and-button-sets/ - 104July 13th, 2009 10:11 pm
Thank you for the icons – the Twitter set is fantastic!
- 105July 17th, 2009 1:47 am
Thanks a lot for the icons, they are reaaly great. I really like twitter and the cute bird, so i designed also a icon-set. 6 Beach TWITTER ICON u can download on my site:
My beach twittter icon set
please enjoy - 106July 23rd, 2009 6:12 am
Love those icons and have been wondering for a while now where those are hosted until I entered the search string “free twitter follow me graphics smashing” into google ;-)
Thanks,
Andreas - 107September 3rd, 2009 7:09 am
Loved these!
Thanks so much! :) - 108September 8th, 2009 2:58 am
I love how twitter allows you to create your own twitter icons yourself, you can really let your imagination go wild! check mine out here.
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- 110September 29th, 2009 2:02 am
Mirjami is the best! I just read an article about her on the Iconshock blog and I have to say she is Hot!
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- 112October 15th, 2009 1:04 pm
Thanks a lot…love this site
- 113October 30th, 2009 10:34 am
Awesome – Mirjami Manninen will be featured in conjoon.
- 114November 16th, 2009 3:22 am
excellent collection
- 115November 24th, 2009 10:24 pm
Very cute cute Icons. Thanx for sharing.
- 116December 14th, 2009 10:57 pm
Very cute cute Icons, excellent collection
ThanQ - 117December 20th, 2009 8:14 pm
Yo!
I just love these one! Really pretty and looks so pro… You are a pro, right? :)
Thanks for sharing! - 118January 2nd, 2010 1:31 am
Thank you! Great set
- 119January 3rd, 2010 5:40 am
Nice thanks
- 120January 10th, 2010 12:05 am
Good!
- 121January 10th, 2010 2:19 pm
the nicest twitter birdie ever, my favourite :)
thanks! - 122January 21st, 2010 10:47 am
very very rare tweeter icon,,,
downloading ,,,,,, thank you
- 123January 21st, 2010 10:15 pm
Thank you,It’s so beautiful!
- 124January 30th, 2010 4:33 pm
so cute
THANQQQQQQQQQQQUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU - 125February 18th, 2010 11:57 pm
thanks so much…
they solved my problems in one illustration!
thanks so much!
- 126February 22nd, 2010 6:45 am
Hey! I just draw a twitter bird. He is sitting at the bottom of my site :) mascotdesigner.com
- 127March 1st, 2010 8:33 am
Lots of great Twitter icons and free vector imageshere:
http://www.999designs.blogspot.com/ - 128March 4th, 2010 3:51 am
Some ppl are using these icones as logos+some type to get payed. You need to publish some rules for commercial use.
- 129March 15th, 2010 8:00 am
Thanks Smash. Great work!
- 130March 21st, 2010 7:34 pm
Beautifully Icons..
- 131March 31st, 2010 11:36 am
Beautiful Icons! highly creative and very detailed!
Thanks for sharing,
- 132May 26th, 2010 6:19 pm
Thank you! They are so cute!
- 133June 15th, 2010 7:19 pm
Love it. thank you for the post.
- 134June 27th, 2010 10:13 am
Thanks for the sets.
Blogger4
- 135June 28th, 2010 9:05 am
super awesome!…thanks a lot for the smashing sets !
- 136July 9th, 2010 12:33 pm
They’re GREAT and cuter than cute! Thanks and hugs and tweet, xo
- 137July 13th, 2010 5:06 am
SMASH rocks the house baby! Awesome icons! Thanks!!!!
- 138July 19th, 2010 4:09 pm
bonitos pajaritos, muy creativo, thanks for sharing your creativity. success………….and more
- 139July 31st, 2010 4:00 pm
SmashMag comes up with the goods again !!! Top work.
… heaps more cool social media icons sets at: http://www.DryIcons.com, http://www.JuicyIcons.com, http://www.IconPedia.com
- 140August 6th, 2010 11:09 pm
very cute twitter bird icon set, making me smile. gonna use it @ my blog. Tq smash
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