50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web-applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to memorize how to perform some specific task or where to find some specific functions.
This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications. Please feel free to suggest more icon sets in the comments to this post.
Web Application Icon Sets
Chalkwork HTML Royalty-free Icons
Chalkwork HTML is a free set of HTML-themed icons, designed to perfectly complement all other sets in the Chalkwork Family. Featuring 31 graphical representations of common markup elements, this is a completely free icon set available for personal and commercial projects alike (although the usual Chalkwork license terms still apply). The set is available in 3 sizes and 6 file formats: transparent PNG, TIF, GIF, BMP, Windows ICO, and Mac ICNS.
Hand Pointer Icons
Free icon set that includes 36 hand pointer icons of 6 diferent types with 6 color variants. Icon set also includes .psd source file.
Flavour Extended: The Ultimate Icon Set For Web Designers
A couple of months ago we released the beautiful Flavours Icon set that was designed by Oliver Twardowski, a graphic designer from Bonn, Germany, the set aimed to help designers in their Web and user interface designs, containing 177 icons in a resolution of 48×48 pixels. In this post we release the updated version of the icon set, now with 452 icons, freely available to use in private or commercial projects.
Basic Set
42 high quality icons in 64×64, 32×32 and 16×16 sizes. Mac OS, Win and .PNG-formats.
Web Injection
This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed. The set includes 26 stylish icons designed by Midtone Design Studio. Each icon is a .png at 48x48px. The Icons were tediously hand crafted by designer Jonatan Castro Fernández.
File Status Icons
File Status Icons set includes 16 icons that can be used for web-applications that deploy Subversion-based projects.
2experts Icons Set
These icons are created from scratch using Adobe Fireworks. The zipped pack contains 48×48 PNG images, which you can use for free.
Danish Royalty Free
Designed by Jonas Rask.
Onebit Icons Set
80 beautiful icons in the resolution 48×48px, .png. Download part 1, too.
On Stage Icons Set
The set contains 49 free vector icons, including PSD, which can be useful for both corporate and personal projects. You can use the set for free, without any restrictions whatsoever. The icons are available in PNG format in a resolution 128×128 pixels. Also included in the package are 100% pure shape-based layered PSDs.
The Browser Icons
This set contains 9 web browser icons available in 64×64, 32×32 and 16×16 pixels. Includes major browsers like Mozilla Firefox,Internet Explorer, Opera,Google Chrome and more.
Milky Icons Set
The Milky set contains more than 131 icons primarily colored in green, giving an eye-pleasant look and prominent display on either dark or bright backgrounds. After eight times of releasing the icons seperately as each part at Min Tran’s weblog, designed mostly at request by our users or readers, now we gathered and packed them all into one package, conveniently for you to get all the icons at the same time.
Media Icons
This icons set contains 15 simple icons in PNG (128×128px), for Windows and Mac.
Silk Companion 1 (more Silk icons)
Mark James (FamFamFam) created a great set of 1,022 silky-smooth 16×16 true-colour icons in PNG format, aptly named Silk Icons. This set is based upon the Silk set and presents 460+ more icons that are derivations and recompositions of the original set.
Coquette 4 Icons Set
The forth part of the Coquette free icons set is powered by another 50 new icons. This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection and playfulness to your projects. “Coquette” free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.
Coquette 5 Icons Set
The fifth part of the “Coquette” icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16x16px, 32x32px, 48x48px, 64x64px and 128x128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format.
E-Commerce Icon Sets
Chalkwork Payments (Free) Icons
Chalkwork Payments is a free set of online payments icons, designed to perfectly complement all other sets in the Chalkwork Family. Featuring 21 base icons and 105 variations, these graphical representations of common payment services and payment-related imagery are a completely free icon set available for personal and commercial projects alike (although the usual Chalkwork license terms still apply). Chalkwork Payments is available in 3 sizes and 6 file formats: transparent PNG, TIF, GIF, BMP, Windows ICO, and Mac ICNS.
Finance Icons Set
The icons are free for personal use and also free for commercial use, but the designers require linking to their web site. The archive contains the icons in all sizes, Windows, Mac and PNG formats.
Credit Cards Icons
23 free credit card icons for free download. More free credit card icons.
Fresh Icons Set
This set contains 59 raster and vector icons. The set includes icons in PNG, ICNS and ICO formats. An EPS vector file is available as well.
Useful Icon Sets
Free Multimedia Vector Icons
A set of free multimedia vector icons in various colors and button styles. These are already vectors and not some ordinary transparent PNG anymore so you can easily modify them to your heart’s desire. I’m thinking of doing some vector social network icons next time but I’m still figuring out a concept. I know there are a lot of these kind of icons scattered around but I’d like to do something different. We’ll see. In the meantime, enjoy these vector icons. These icons come in two vector file formats, EPS (Illustrator 10 up) and AI (Illustrator CS up).
Fortune 500 Badges
Over 200 badges of famous brands, PSDs included.
172 final country flag icons
172 final country flag icons. 48×48 png.
Symbol Signs
The complete set of 50 passenger/pedestrian symbols developed by AIGA is now available on the web, free of charge. Signs are available in EPS and GIF formats.
Free Vector Icons Pack 03
Vector template.
Social Icon Sets
Social Media Mini Iconpack
This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. Put them on your blog or on your website to help users bookmark or share your site socially. I hear its all-the-rage these days. This icon pack consists of the following icons, in absolutely no logical order:
Icons Cloud
Social icon set with icons shaped cloud. PNG.
Page Peel
The set contains 16 social icons in (transparent) PNG format.
Free Vector Icons Set + Twitter Birdy Icon
Handycons 2 – another free hand drawn icon set
This icons set contains Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr, FriendFeed, Furl, Gmail, Google, Heart icon, Last FM, Linked IN, Magnolia, Newsvine, PayPal, Skype, Sphinn, Twitter, Vimeo, Yahoo and You Tube icons. All icons come in four sizes: 16×16, 32×32, 64×64 and 12x128px. And they are all free.
19 Free Hand-Dran Sketch Icons
Each icon is a .JPG and comes in two sizes: 48×48px and 96×96px. Each is dark greyish on a white background.
Polaroid icon set
YouTube, Delicious, RSS, Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, mySpace, Feedburner, Skype, Yahoo, Last.fm, Linkin, Reddit and Gmail.
IconTexto Web 2.0 User
28 icons in formats PNG (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16), ICO (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16) and ICNS (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).
Social Icons Hand-Drawn
This set includes icons for Blip.fm, Digg, Facebook, Firefox, Flickr, Meneame, Myspace, Technorati, Twitter, Vimeo, WordPress, Youtube, LastFM, RSS, Blogger, GMail, Reddit and StumbleUpon. The icons are available in the sizes 24×24, 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64. Released under Creative Commons license.
Circular Social Icons
The zip file includes 3 sizes for 17 icons: 128×128px, 64×64px and 32×32px. There is an icon for the following: Blogger, Delicious, DesignFloat, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, Google, a heart icon that will work for anything (such as bookmark), MySpace, Reddit, an RSS icon, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Twitter, WordPress, Yahoo! and YouTube. Designed by Eli Burford from Australia.
Beautiful General Icon Sets
Manila Mail
A manila envelope style mail replacement.
Baggy Icon Set
Baggy Icon Set was designed by Paul Kadysz. It contains 5 high quality icns. This time we’ve got 3 different formats (.ico, .icns and .png) and 6 sizes! 512px-16px (except .png). Here’s how the set looks like.
Dox
The set contains 47 ICNS in iCONTAINER format.
Agua Icons Set
350 free beautiful desktop icons that can also be used online. Designed by the master David Lanham.
30 free office Icons
30 free office icons which rendered at 256×256, 128×128, 64×64, 48×48, 32×32, 24×24, 16×16 pixels and formats are png, ico and icns.
Project Icon Set For Free Download
This icon set, designed by Navdeep Raj and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers, contains 18 beautiful icons related to project management. The set includes the icons address card, bar graph, calendar, clock / time, conference device, contact, documents, draft, mail, marker, milestone, notes, portfolio, project plan / gant chart, search / find, sitemap / flowchart, todo and user / resource. The files are transparent PNGs, and vector Fireworks source files are included as well. As always, the set is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever.
Stationery Icons Set
A useful set of 22 vector icons (256 × 256 pixels). It contains book, brush, crayon, clip, color pencils, document, eraser, pad, palette, post-it note, scale and scissors, as well as the Fireworks source file.
Practica Icons Set
A free set of 11 useful high-quality icons, designed by DryIcons especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons are available in resolutions of 64, 128 and 256 pixels, in 32-bit transparency PNG format.
Weby Icon Set
The icons are available in PNG, ICO and ICNS format. They are free to use for both personal and commercial projects, including websites, templates & software. You are not allowed to sell or redistribute the icons anywhere else. If you like to share the icons please link to this article.
Sleek XP Basic Icons
50 stock icon in PNG and ICO formats. this is absolutely free for personal and non-commercial purposes only.
40 Free Twitter Badges
The set includes 40 files in total, all in transparent .png format. The buttons etc come with PSD files too so you can edit and re-size them as needed. The original characters come as a large High Res image which makes it very easy to scale down and use however you want.
Puzzle Icons
A small tribute to Erno Rubik and Uwe Meffert, Mac OS X Style!
Design a Stylish Mail Icon in Photoshop
Iiro Jappinen’s Icons
For personal use only.
Niepce’s Camera Obscura
The download package now includes 7 icons as an iContainer and for Mac (icns, Folder), Linux (PNG) and Windows (ico) and you can grab it from the Goodies page.
Cute Critters Free Icon Pack
The Cute Critters Icon Pack is a free Icon set with 13 painfully cute critters, created by Elio Rivero of ilovecolors. Each icon is in .png format sized at 512×512px with transparent backgrounds. Altogether, there is more cuteness than you could shake a stick at. This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.
Somatic Rebirth Apps Icons – Life in Colors
Sticker Icons
152 various beautiful icons designed by David Lanham.
Star Trek Icons
Official Star Trek icons and desktop pictures for free download.
erkek giyim
June 10th, 2009 1:15 amthank you
Kandagatla
June 10th, 2009 1:34 amThank you this is very useful to me.
MAHESH KANDAGATLA
Diety
June 10th, 2009 4:52 amSweet! Some of those might really go great with my rocket dock!
designhj
June 10th, 2009 6:46 amwow amazing
web designer in london
June 10th, 2009 7:08 amVery beautiful
Thanks a lot
Cristian Ciofu
June 11th, 2009 12:07 amThis link goes directly on delicious :)
Thanks SM :)
Elyy
June 11th, 2009 12:26 amThere’s some broken links!
Musafar
June 11th, 2009 1:35 amthis is very useful
Thank you guys
Ted
June 11th, 2009 1:55 amI’m quite sure that any of David Lanham’s Iconfactory icons are only free for personal use. Correct me if I’m wrong, but if I remember correctly, the Iconfactory has always had that policy.
Sérgio Michels
June 11th, 2009 3:15 amThanks!!
Mathilde
June 11th, 2009 12:15 pmHello I’m the designer of the Sketchy icon set and i’m afraid that my website OR my name doesn’t appear here.
Christian
June 12th, 2009 9:20 amGreat Dude! Many Icons which i have to use :D
Mr. CRAPIC
June 12th, 2009 12:20 pmGreat list! Smashawesome!
Arnold Dela Cruz
June 12th, 2009 12:53 pmFirst of all, Smashing Editorial, please address comment #116 and give Mathilde her due credit if in fact you’ve forgotten to. Secondly, GREAT collection! I could literally spend hours just mining your site for gems like this. Perhaps days. Collections like these are very helpful and useful to my design work. Please keep them coming. And MANY THANKS to the designers who put so much time and effort to creating such beautifully made icons! I’m trying to bookmark your sites so I can go back and hunt or PayPal links to donate for your time.
Faisal Khan
June 14th, 2009 3:48 amEvery single time I visit this website, it never ceases to amaze me. This is indeed a very beautiful and pragmatic icon collection. Thanks for sharing.
Giovanni
June 14th, 2009 11:16 amThank you. I’ll link this post on my website, with other post. If some problem, please tell me. (blog.whitesoil.com.br) .
Module23
June 14th, 2009 1:57 pmThanks for posting the scatchy icons.
dlv
June 15th, 2009 8:35 am“On Stage – a free icon set” download link is broken
Black92
June 15th, 2009 12:24 pmFantastic site!!!
Wunderfull!!
Thank you for posting
Abhijeet Pathak
June 17th, 2009 1:20 amGreat stuff… as always…
Zac Vineyard
June 18th, 2009 6:48 amThese are sweet!
sayan
June 22nd, 2009 12:56 amWhat can be said…..only “Awesome”
mEmHeT
July 3rd, 2009 10:33 amExcelente.
Gracias
Dena
July 5th, 2009 5:13 pmTHANKYOU for this resource of GOOD icons!
touno
July 14th, 2009 11:14 pmGood!
tuna
July 19th, 2009 11:28 pmsome links are dead.. :(
tahir hamid
July 21st, 2009 2:30 amvery usefull collection of icons
vegas
July 24th, 2009 5:13 amSocial media icons = win! thanks for that
SamH
August 24th, 2009 5:45 amFantastic! Thank you for these :)
Joshua Sortino
September 3rd, 2009 8:54 pmGreat list! I will be using one of these icon sets in one of my upcoming projects!
hemanth
September 8th, 2009 1:05 amgreat icons.
I wish all the icons were In AI (Adobe Illustrator) format.
Simon White
September 11th, 2009 6:14 amThanks, found these icons excellent!
I have bookmarked for further use :)
Henrik Holm Nielsen
September 14th, 2009 8:15 amBEST collection if EVER come across.
THANK YOU :)
/HHN
Teresa
September 16th, 2009 1:26 pmFantástico, los mejores iconos de diseño toditos en un único post.
Felicidades y gracias
kobs
September 16th, 2009 4:59 pmwonderful !!!
jack wang
September 18th, 2009 3:56 pmThanks, found these icons excellent
litecy
September 29th, 2009 8:10 pmgood work
Peter Kahuria
October 2nd, 2009 9:03 pmThank you so much! I had to buy a lot of icons and ending up not using them. Peter Kahuria
tnlsolutions
October 21st, 2009 7:09 pmGreat Help. Thanks alot.
php thumbnailer
November 1st, 2009 11:58 pm1337, this collections is so coooooool
sanju
November 17th, 2009 11:01 pmOn Stage Icons Set
can download this set of icons ya showing up 404
babak
November 20th, 2009 11:31 pmThank you so much , its very nice and fresh
Babak Zawari
sheenjhon
December 5th, 2009 1:26 amThis post contains a very huge stock of good and fantastic animated images.It was great fun being a part of this post.
Faizan
December 21st, 2009 5:45 amGreat collection….
Adam McCombs
December 21st, 2009 12:19 pmGreat collection of icons but a number of these links are now broken…
Matt
December 23rd, 2009 10:22 amJust noticed the StumpleUpon should be StumbleUpon in the Polaroid icon set. A little photoshop magic and it is all good! Cheers
Adam
January 6th, 2010 6:16 pmSo many broken links :(
Needed them bad! grumpy for the day!!
Christiane Rosenberger
January 7th, 2010 4:24 amFixed! :-)
Ahmed
January 17th, 2010 11:48 amIs this brilliant or what!
DJ Muenchen
February 11th, 2010 2:19 amNice icon sets. thank you
Rodrigo T
February 12th, 2010 5:31 amHuh! Very Cool Icons Collection. Tanks!
Werner Metzel
February 15th, 2010 1:56 pmBin schon seit langem leiser leser deines blogs und finde deine Beiträge wirklich gut.In den vergangenen Tagen ist mir allerdings aufgefallen, dass dein layout im chrome browser total zerrissen ist… Ich kann deinen blog nur mit dem IE lesen. Wäre klasse wenn du an dem Problem arbeiten könntest
Fun Spill
March 4th, 2010 12:56 amGreat collection! Here is also another collection of social media icons: http://www.funspill.com/ultimate-packs-social-networking-icons/
Mickellaneous
May 10th, 2010 2:19 am127 scalable vector social icons developers starter kit found here: http://www.elegantui.com/?p=19
Ritwika Ghosh Bhattacharya
May 25th, 2010 10:44 pmAwesome icons… Tank you very much :)
Tess
July 1st, 2010 4:46 amAll the icons are incredible. I am not that much of a fan of the very small icons but it’s good to know they exist somewhere. I mean you never know when they could be useful to you. I really love the mail icons, they look incredibly real. The Star Treck icons are amazing too :) Whoever made these had one hell of an idea. The cute critters icons look so adorable. It’s hard to settle on just one set, because they are all great. Thanks for sharing.
prem
July 20th, 2010 3:30 ambeautiful icons collections
thanks………………
Nick
July 30th, 2010 9:32 amAny know of a source for political icons? Looking for such icons as donate, support, volunteer, etc…
Thanks,
Nick
Nick
July 30th, 2010 9:36 amShould be: Any one know of a source for political campaign icons? Looking for such icons as donate, support, volunteer, etc…
Thanks,
Nick
Tracey Rickard
July 31st, 2010 5:22 amThanks so much, this is such a great resource!
Nitin kumar
August 6th, 2010 3:31 amThank you so much this is so useful good job
Andres
August 11th, 2010 6:18 pmAWESOME!!!!!!
Jessica @ Jessiker Bakes
August 26th, 2010 11:45 pmawesome!!!
Almas
October 1st, 2010 1:38 amwow …..very nice….amazing collections …Good
thanks……..
Nisha Shah
November 5th, 2010 9:02 pmAmazing Icons. Love this post.
GDH Web Design
December 13th, 2010 5:55 amGreat collection, many thanks!
Ankush
December 16th, 2010 2:09 amit’s awesome and good collection to usable library…
Valikonen
December 16th, 2010 4:57 amVery cool collection, thanks. If you want to see menus, web site trends, galleries etc, visit 1artmedia.com , you have online demo and free download. Bye!
Lukas
January 25th, 2011 12:18 pmtotal crap vista style, very uninspiring
kris
February 7th, 2011 2:50 amthanks for the icons packs , they will snaz up my busniess website nicely.
Chris
February 11th, 2011 9:24 pmThanks so much. This is perfect for what I’m developing!
ibaad
March 14th, 2011 1:05 amamazing stuffs.U rock !!
Suresh Chavan
March 29th, 2011 11:28 pmwow ! this is perfect for designing.
thanks a lot!
boke8
April 27th, 2011 10:14 pmThanks,I have been download full them.
omar
April 29th, 2011 7:27 amReally good icons.
kumar
May 15th, 2011 10:15 pmit`s really awesome..
Rahul
May 25th, 2011 11:38 pmCoool Thanx :)
iamseventh
June 11th, 2011 3:48 amawesome! thank you so much. I badly needed these icons :)
Steven McCurrach
July 16th, 2011 9:05 amHalf of the image links are now broken in this post.
Luke
July 22nd, 2011 6:16 amWow, so many links broken… useless now…
Mr_SAMAKIDA
August 28th, 2011 11:03 pmAwesome, thank you for your shared.
Madalin Blidaru
September 3rd, 2011 10:48 amThanks a lot!The Polaroid icons are great and I will use them sooner. Thanks again!
jon
November 10th, 2011 7:32 pmnice collections!