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Freebie Release: Quartz Icon Set

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Today we are glad to release Quartz Icon Pack, a set with 90 clean, sharp and (hopefully) useful icons for your project. This set was designed by our friend, a Romanian designer Andy Gongea especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The Quartz icon set contains 90 semi-transparent .png-icons in the resolution 64×64px.

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The icons can be used without any restrictions for any type of composition – text- or graphic-based. The icons cover a wide range of designs – e-mail icons, software icons, general web application icons and blog icons. The set is free to download and use in any projects.

Download the icon set for free!

You can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions. 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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  1. 1
    Hayes Potter
    June 18th, 2009 9:25 am

    Very awesome set of icons

  2. 2
    RedCafe
    June 18th, 2009 9:42 am

    Awesome and extremely useful! I appreciate it a lot.

  3. 3
    rc
    June 18th, 2009 9:55 am

    This is great! Thanks for the set of icons.

  4. 4
    Chris Wallace
    June 18th, 2009 9:58 am

    Nicely done Andy. Can you explain what your process was in selecting which icons to design?

  5. 5
    Andy Gongea
    June 18th, 2009 10:10 am

    Thank you all. I appreciate your kind words.

    @Chris Wallace

    No process – I’ve started with a home and then one icon led to another. I still have other drafts which were left behind.

  6. 6
    Alex B.
    June 18th, 2009 10:16 am

    Thank you! Excellent for my new project!

  7. 7
    Manuel
    June 18th, 2009 10:17 am

    Oh yeah! Great icons and very useful.
    Great job!

  8. 8
    Jack Griffiths
    June 18th, 2009 10:31 am

    Fab..u…lous!

  9. 9
    Pratik Bagaria
    June 18th, 2009 10:44 am

    Love the icons.
    Social ones are nice. Would you it on my blog.

    Thanks

  10. 10
    Jonas
    June 18th, 2009 10:52 am

    Another set of boring icons. How many Home icons do we need?

  11. 11
    Alex Tayra
    June 18th, 2009 10:57 am

    nothing special, but cute.
    not sure that it should be on the SM..

  12. 12
    Christopher
    June 18th, 2009 11:00 am

    Would be nice to get the .eps files for these icons to match them to anything we need to fit them to. Change colors, bigger size… blend them. Whatever.

  13. 13
    Peter Craddock
    June 18th, 2009 11:03 am

    Ah, I wish there could be a good 16px*16px file type icon set (PDF, ZIP, …) in the same vein.

  14. 14
    Chris
    June 18th, 2009 11:04 am

    nice, thanks for the icons.

  15. 15
    Devonanne
    June 18th, 2009 11:09 am

    Awesome! Many thanks.

  16. 16
    holder10
    June 18th, 2009 11:27 am

    The icons look awesome, thanks so much :)

    I have one question: I am taking part on a design contest from a paid forum software. So, the design that wins will be shipped as a 2nd default skin together with the paid forum software. Am I allowed to use the icons in the skin I create for the contest?

    And am I allowed to mix & edit the icons for this purpose?

    Thank you,
    holder10

  17. 17
    Echilon
    June 18th, 2009 11:48 am

    Thanks for another great icon set!

  18. 18
    Radeksonic
    June 18th, 2009 11:50 am

    The first icon is ugly, but the rest is awesome!

  19. 19
    Stephen
    June 18th, 2009 12:07 pm

    great icon set, exactly what I was looking for

  20. 20
    Chris Robinson
    June 18th, 2009 12:24 pm

    really nice freebie set

  21. 21
    kevinsturf
    June 18th, 2009 12:30 pm

    wow amazing love these icons

  22. 22
    Kevin
    June 18th, 2009 12:36 pm

    Now this might make up for the last two crappy posts… thanks SM

  23. 23
    sharfik
    June 18th, 2009 1:06 pm

    Thank you!

  24. 24
    Suricate
    June 18th, 2009 2:12 pm

    Sorry, must have required some work… but it results in a huge “déjà vu” impression…

  25. 25
    turb
    June 18th, 2009 3:09 pm

    Well i like *really* most of your posts a lot & most more interesting than any other on net, but what are those icon-posts for? You really can’t use them in my mind.

    Else, best work, smashes!

  26. 26
    brian
    June 18th, 2009 3:55 pm

    Thank you kindly~

  27. 27
    Brian Temecula
    June 18th, 2009 6:27 pm

    After so many icon sets, they all seem to blur together…

  28. 28
    ROCK BUNCH
    June 18th, 2009 6:43 pm

    I cant find anything better than these set of icons.

  29. 29
    Diane
    June 18th, 2009 7:01 pm

    Thank you!

  30. 30
    snnaqvi
    June 18th, 2009 7:31 pm

    Awesome

  31. 31
    Darwin Santos
    June 18th, 2009 7:45 pm

    Thanks.

  32. 32
    Tejendra Shandilya
    June 18th, 2009 7:45 pm

    awesome icon and very useful
    thanks

  33. 33
    Vijayta
    June 18th, 2009 8:28 pm

    very useful icons

    thanks

  34. 34
    afridi
    June 18th, 2009 9:11 pm

    excellent! Thank you,

  35. 35
    m
    June 18th, 2009 9:27 pm

    No… Not so good. Blurred, seen before and plain bad icons. Difficult to use… Not really worth the bother…

    Thanks SM though… This is just a slip?

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    Andrewbenardski
    June 18th, 2009 10:37 pm

    Thank you!

  37. 37
    Sublimo Designs
    June 18th, 2009 11:39 pm

    Thanks a bunch Andy for this effort!
    I’m going to use it on my next project.

  38. 38
    Andy Gongea
    June 18th, 2009 11:46 pm

    I’m glad you like it guys and thank you for your feedback (both positive and … not so positive) :D

    Cheers!

  39. 39
    Dave
    June 18th, 2009 11:52 pm

    Nice Icons Thank You

  40. 40
    jayman
    June 18th, 2009 11:56 pm

    nice one. quality!

  41. 41
    Palistal
    June 19th, 2009 12:30 am

    Nice icon set – useful in a wide variety of project. And on top of it, it’s free.

    I really think that when commenting on freebies, people should drop a line with ‘good job’.
    Before posting comments like ‘where could I use this?’ or ’seen better/this before’ you should take into consideration the work it’s been put into making this set of icons. Free icon sets are a tremendous help for programmers who don’t have the skills to easily create icons or for designers who don’t have the time to make them.

    Again, Andy keep up the good job ! And thanks!

  42. 42
    Rusty
    June 19th, 2009 12:41 am

    Good Work Andy!

    Too many inconsiderate people in this day and age :(

    Keep up the great work!

  43. 43
    Neha Sharma
    June 19th, 2009 12:43 am

    Thanks Andy for icons…these all are added into my collection.
    Designers always Love Free Icons.

    Neha

  44. 44
    cprail
    June 19th, 2009 1:19 am

    Thanks! Very nice!

  45. 45
    Thomas
    June 19th, 2009 1:26 am

    @Jonas – can you point us to the free set of icons that you have designed please? I would love to see your work as it must be excellent to give you the moral high ground to criticise others.

    Can’t believe people put in the effort to moan at a free set of icons. Don’t like them – don’t use them, but have some manners and stay quiet.

    @Andy – thanks for putting in the time and being generous with your work. I am sure all reasonably minded people appreciate it.

  46. 46
    Sharon
    June 19th, 2009 1:57 am

    Very nice icons, thanks for sharing :)

  47. 47
    Morten Ryum
    June 19th, 2009 6:08 am

    Wow, these are great! Thank you!

  48. 48
    Ashburton
    June 19th, 2009 6:24 am

    Very nice, but why does the Flash icon use the old Macromedia logo and not the new “Fl” abbreviation like the rest of the Adobe software?

  49. 49
    Andy Gongea
    June 19th, 2009 6:33 am

    @Ashburton – I think that the icon with the old shape is more relevant than the simple FL.

  50. 50
    Jon Hartmann
    June 19th, 2009 9:22 am

    This is the icon pack I’ve been waiting for from Smashing. Something simple, clean, and usable in multiple situations.

  51. 51
    Brena
    June 19th, 2009 4:16 pm

    Thank you! Very appreciated – nice work!

  52. 52
    ali
    June 19th, 2009 5:43 pm

    Thanks, nice works.

  53. 53
    halai
    June 20th, 2009 2:04 am

    Thanks. seoname.com

  54. 54
    sneakatron
    June 20th, 2009 3:21 am

    This will come in handy

  55. 55
    krackatua
    June 20th, 2009 10:32 am

    Awesome ! Thanks a lot

  56. 56
    bayu faza
    June 20th, 2009 6:04 pm

    It’s great…. Thank u

    bayufaza.blogspot.com

  57. 57
    e-anima
    June 21st, 2009 1:35 am

    thank you very much smashingmag and thanks to the author, too

  58. 58
    Hieu Vo
    June 21st, 2009 3:38 am

    Nice pack !

  59. 59
    Kavin
    June 21st, 2009 3:56 am

    thanks!

  60. 60
    Dalesh Kowlesar
    June 21st, 2009 8:14 am

    You guys rock! I love the designs and icons etc that you have been offering. Great work! Thanks!

  61. 61
    Rajesh r nair
    June 22nd, 2009 1:31 am

    really.. extreme.. love all

  62. 62
    Fritsie
    June 22nd, 2009 4:09 am

    Aah, fresh! Thanks!

  63. 63
    sama creation
    June 22nd, 2009 10:23 pm

    Nice pack ! thank you

  64. 64
    Aaron
    June 23rd, 2009 2:27 pm

    Thank you!

  65. 65
    Tejendra Shandilya
    June 23rd, 2009 7:54 pm

    Nice………

  66. 66
    Meysam
    July 25th, 2009 5:38 am

    thanks, it’s beauty.

  67. 67
    Rajesh R.Nair
    August 6th, 2009 4:27 am

    love to have all this with me.. for my reference… really its great work.

    Rajesh R.Nair

  68. 68
    Matt S.
    August 15th, 2009 6:28 am

    Thanks a lot, I have a feeling many of these will come in handy! I used one of these icons when I redesigned jrdecks.com just yesterday :)

  69. 69
    srikumar
    October 8th, 2009 9:14 am

    vathanisrikumar

  70. 70
    Shovan
    October 22nd, 2009 5:43 pm

    Thanks Andy!

  71. 71
    Navegah
    November 3rd, 2009 3:06 pm

    Great job! Thanks a lot.

  72. 72
    Minkki
    November 6th, 2009 4:11 pm

    Grozave, Andy! Sunt foarte folositoare! Mii de multumiri :)

  73. 73
    Alex Flueras
    November 12th, 2009 10:21 pm

    This icons set rocks!! Thanks so much for sharing!

  74. 74
    Rebecca
    December 3rd, 2009 3:27 pm

    I was a bit slow finding this, but glad I did. These are some of the best icons I’ve seen, and they’re free? Awesome, thank you :)

  75. 75
    subske
    January 3rd, 2010 11:24 pm

    Thanks for this great icon set… Gratz…

  76. 76
    Konki
    January 9th, 2010 1:59 am

    Hi, Can i use these icons in my playstation?

    • 77
      Christiane Rosenberger
      January 9th, 2010 3:18 am

      yes, feel free to use these icons in your playstation :-)

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