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Free Medical Icons Set (60 Icons)
Today we are glad to release a Free Medical Icons Set, a set with 60 original medical icons in .png 32 bit in resolutions 32×32px and 128×128px. This set was designed by the user interface design agency Centigrade and released exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The icons can serve as great in-app icons for desktop or RIAs in the medical domain. With perspective and reflective effects these can be a real stunner on landing pages or in touch screen application menus.
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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- download the set (.zip, 0.28 Mb)
- release post on designers’ website
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designers:
There are a lot of free icon libraries out there, however, only few of them focus mainly on medical icons and we wanted this gap to be closed. Centigrade conducted quite a lot of icon projects in the healthcare sector just recently, for which reason we already had some nice vector shapes on the pile. We distilled the most frequently requested metaphors and wrapped them into a fresh new style. Being modern and concise rather than fancy and playful, they are in line with what we experienced works well in the medical domain.
Thank you very much, guys! We really appreciate your efforts.
The team here at Smashing Magazine. Mostly Sven & Vitaly.
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February 15th, 2010 9:27 amThanks a million, great stuff! Please let it become a habit…!
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- 3February 15th, 2010 1:15 am
I like turtles! These icons have been used on sitereport and look great. I will use it for my projects too. Thanks for sharing!
- 4February 15th, 2010 1:23 am
beautiful icons :) thanks
- 5February 15th, 2010 1:26 am
This is so cool! I would love to try this on one of my projects related to medical field.
- 6February 15th, 2010 1:27 am
Beautiful set :) Thanks for the icons
- 7February 15th, 2010 1:47 am
tnx, guys just work on project in this area :)
- 8February 15th, 2010 2:03 am
The icons are very high quality and beautiful.
@the author: What I don’t understand however: Won’t releasing complete free sets of icons downgrade your own work? People might feel reluctant to order custom icons when ther’s so much good and free ones out there… I’d love to hear your take…- 9February 15th, 2010 2:40 am
Hi Marco,
Thanks for your comment! It’s a good question that you are asking and we ask this one to ourselves a couple of times, too. However, we do not think that we downgrade our custom icon work, as every project is so different and icon styles can be so different in detail (we of course have to be careful not being inflationary here).
Sometimes it is even an advantage for us to have some different icon styles ready that are not exclusively reserved for a specific customer so that we can show them to potential customers and tell them: “Look, this is exactly what you get, when your order at Centigrade. We take the style exactly as is but adapt it to the specific metaphors of your domain.”
Cheers, Thomas
- 10February 15th, 2010 3:31 am
Nice one, marco!
It’s refreshing to hear others who are also worried about the effect of too-much-free-stuff on the profit of people who offer premium, paid content.
Most people on the internet actually think that anything offered online should be free and are reluctant to pay for “the next level”.Not that I’m looking down on the open-source, free-stuff (hey I like free stuff too). It’s just nice to see someone who’s concerned about this issue.
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- 11February 15th, 2010 2:06 am
Dommage que la radiographie ne soit pas disponible en 128px …
Mais c’est gratuit, alors merci !“Too bad that radiography is not available in 128px …
But its’ free, thx !” - 12February 15th, 2010 2:12 am
Nice ones, can’t wait to use them, Thanks
- 13February 15th, 2010 2:20 am
Sweet!
Thanks a lot! - 14February 15th, 2010 2:44 am
Great icons.
- 15February 15th, 2010 2:47 am
Thank you very much for the set!
- 16February 15th, 2010 3:14 am
They are looking great!
- 17February 15th, 2010 3:35 am
This really is a beautiful set. Big Thanks x
- 18February 15th, 2010 3:44 am
@ Thomas Immich: Thank you for the reply! Yes, I see how that can be of good use. Also, there is the free publicity of course but that is difficult to measure. In a sense it’s a bit like font design I suppose. So much time and effort goes in to creating your work! Thank you for sharing and I have bookmarked your blog ;-)
- 19February 15th, 2010 3:45 am
Beautiful icon set, very rare. Thanks for sharing.
- 20February 15th, 2010 4:40 am
Thankyou For Beautiful Icon Set.
- 21February 15th, 2010 5:15 am
Amazing icons…
- 22February 15th, 2010 5:29 am
beautiful! thank you so much, I’m just developing a medical application so this will be very helpful.
- 23February 15th, 2010 6:54 am
awesome! thanks guys!
- 24February 15th, 2010 8:30 am
Great job. Last year I needed some icons like this and I had to do it myself. Thanks.
- 25February 15th, 2010 9:33 am
Beautiful, but DANGEROUS icons. Are you sure the end-user/the patient is going to understand these icons the way you meant it??????
What about localisation? How are Chinese, European, African nurses going to understand/interpret these icons? - 26February 15th, 2010 10:28 am
@Flacke definitely important to consider. However I believe that icons are better at traversing cultural and communication barriers better than translation software.
- 27February 16th, 2010 4:36 am
Translation software should be used by professional translators only. They know whether the translated text is correct or not.
Research at the Univ of Michigan showed that icons are _not perceived_ in the same way in different cultures/countries.
In the US and in Europe, the pregnant woman icon with the slash means “Don’t take this medicine if you are pregnant”. In some African countries, it was understood as “If you take this medicine, you won’t get pregnant”.
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- 28February 15th, 2010 11:57 am
Great icons.. can be really useful at time!
Btw, SmashingMag guys.. I hate when you just say
“Thank you very much, guys! We really appreciate your efforts.” at the end of the article. Bring something new, we’re bored of it ! :D - 29February 15th, 2010 6:49 pm
gratis bagus lagi… thanks deh.
- 30February 15th, 2010 9:15 pm
These are amazing! It’s great to see a set of icons made for more “uncommon” industries, especially ones that look so professional.
- 31February 15th, 2010 9:20 pm
yet we witness another fantastic icon set here in Smash Mag, you guys are amazing! I can use this icon set for future school projects thanks a bunch!
- 32February 15th, 2010 10:28 pm
nice icons :)
- 33February 15th, 2010 10:44 pm
cool icons..thanks.
- 34February 16th, 2010 1:34 am
That’s perfect! I was just looking for something like this!
- 35February 16th, 2010 3:21 am
Thanks a lot, Thomas!=)
The best medical icons set i’ve seen!) - 36February 16th, 2010 3:35 am
Thanks mate, bought the book and you’re giving me free stuff too.
- 37February 16th, 2010 5:25 am
Thank you very much! That’s what i’ve been looking for since forever :) Thank you!!!!
- 38February 16th, 2010 10:00 am
Wow. This is exactly what I was looking for!
- 39February 16th, 2010 11:42 am
Gracias son muy interesantes e importantes para las tareas que realizo, las más sinceras felicitaciones a innovadora plantilla y no desmayar en sus emprendimientos!!
- 40February 16th, 2010 2:25 pm
Great, I needed a tooth.
- 41February 16th, 2010 9:02 pm
thanks :)
- 42February 16th, 2010 9:29 pm
this is great. really appreciated. you guys keep amazing me. great work, keep it up
- 43February 17th, 2010 5:48 am
I am a French designer, I come regularly to your blog
thank you for this article.Here also a link to the video of my communications agency:
- 44February 17th, 2010 12:44 pm
Very nice professional stuff. Thanks for sharing, very usefull!
- 45February 18th, 2010 3:51 am
Just wanted to say thank you! Specially for the open license and permissions. Thank you.
- 46February 18th, 2010 5:28 am
High Quality and beautyfull…
- 47February 19th, 2010 5:31 am
Thank you for the great Stuff.
- 48February 19th, 2010 8:35 am
Wow. That is a very nice set! I have no need for medical icons but I am sure somebody does.
- 49February 20th, 2010 11:52 am
Fantastic set
- 50February 21st, 2010 8:57 am
Perfect!, awesome icon set, thanks
- 51February 21st, 2010 10:42 pm
these are awesome. thanks a lot guys.
- 52February 24th, 2010 9:07 pm
Awesome quality icons! Thanks for sharing.
- 53February 25th, 2010 3:02 am
Fantastic set.
- 54February 25th, 2010 10:17 am
This is wonderful since I’m getting some medical field clients! Thank you!
- 55February 25th, 2010 6:20 pm
Parabéns , belo post!
- 56March 7th, 2010 8:58 am
nice design.
- 57March 21st, 2010 7:44 am
Lovely Icon set….., Let me shared to my social.
- 58June 25th, 2010 7:55 am
Gracias por el aporte esta genial ….
- 59June 25th, 2010 7:56 am
gracias por el aporte esta genial
- 60July 10th, 2010 4:52 am
Thank you. Really really nice and useable.
- 61July 13th, 2010 11:06 pm
Very nice!!! Thx ;)
- 62August 29th, 2010 11:56 pm
Thanx!
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This is cool. I think Icon sets that are not mainstream are very useful. Thank you, Thomas. And please post more of these, Smashing Magazine!