50 New Free High-Quality Icon Sets (with Easter Icons!)

• By The Smashing Editorial
• April 1st, 2010
• Freebies, Icons
• 97 Comments

Today we are pleased to provide our readers with a yet another round-up of high-quality icon sets. Below, you will find free sets covering a wide range of subjects, including Easter and food sections. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons, and feel free to follow the links: they will certainly come in handy when you’re designing a new website or looking for inspiration.

Please notice that we do know that round-ups of icon sets are getting old; but because these round-ups are always useful and handy, we are keeping doing them. Most of the icons featured below are new, some are a bit older. Let us know if you’d like to have more or less similar round-ups in the comments to this post. Thank you!

You can also scan our other icon-related articles:

• 50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
• 50 Free High-Quality Icon Sets
• 40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
• 35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets
• 20 Free And Fresh Icon Sets

Easter And Food Icons

Free Easter Icons
Easter being so close, I thought you might want a couple of free icons to decorate your website: a cute Easter bunny and an Easter egg. In the ZIP file for the Bunny and Egg Easter Pack. you’ll find transparent PNGs for an Easter rabbit, a rabbit holding an RSS icon, a rabbit holding an Easter egg and a rabbit holding an RSS icon and an egg. You will also get the Easter egg in the same size as the icon of the rabbit displayed above.

Happy Easter Icon Set
Four icons in resolutions ranging from 16×16 to 512×512 pixels.

Easter Bunny Icons
44 cute Easter icons that you can use for web and print design. Icons include: bunnies, birdies, Easter eggs, and candy bars. You can use them to spirit up your blog themes or to design your Easter postcards and invitations. The icons are available in vector PDF format, meaning you can resize them to any size to fit your design.

No Ordinary Easter Eggs Icon Set
Six transparent icons in the resolution 512×512 pixels.

Yummy: Icon Eden
Yummy is a set of delicious, tasty and beautiful free icons. It has 20 icons in various sizes, from 48×48 to 128×128 pixels. Also included are scalable and editable vector icons.

Apple Mug Icons and Extras

Valentine’s Day Icons

Donut Box
Nothing is tastier than fresh donuts, as any law enforcement official would tell you.

Fruits Illustrated
Fourteen colorful fruits. This icon set includes strawberry, banana, blackberry, peach, apple, watermelon, grapes, kiwi, coconut, orange, lemon, lime, cherries and a special orange.

Useful Icon Sets

ComFi Telecom Icons
ComFi created a specific telecom icon set in 32×32 pixels. Some icons could have a more general application, such as the ones for receptionist, feedback, guarantee, help. Others not so much: Wi-Fi, VoIP, VPN, Bluetooth.

Icons

Design Cartons Free Icon Set for Designers
Here are five high-quality icons of boxes and cartons that you can use to announce the launch of a new application or on your portfolio website. There is plenty of space to add your own flavor to the graphics, like your name, an important date, a blog name or app name. These icons are free for personal and commercial use. They come in two sizes, 512×512 and 256×256 pixels, and are in PNG format.

Notes Icons
Pack of icons, PNG, ICO and ICNS, including notebooks of various size.

User Center Calendar

Pixel Perfect
55 free user icons. Generate a template (between 400 and 700 pixels in width) that matches your blog’s color and width.

Once
A set of general-purpose icons in PNG format (48×48 pixels).

Help
A set of icons inspired by a help icon that belonged to the artist Everaldo.

nixus
60 icons in resolutions of 32×32, 48×48 and 64×64 pixels.

Colorful Panel Icons
Simple colored icons.

32px Mantra
This 32 pixel icon pack consists of approximately 50 icons.

This Is Art Icons
Icons optimized for v5.0 of Officinadigitale.co.cc (coming soon).

Cartoon Icons
The package includes icons in resolutions of 256×256 and 512×512 pixels and in the formats of .ico (256 pixel only), ICNS, PNG and iContainer.

Breathe
Breathe is a replacement icon set for the Android OS, inspired by the iPhone’s rounded icons.

Project Icons
A pack of 17 icons, 32 pixels only. Available in PNG, ICO, ICNS and as pasted icons.

Areskub
By Stephane Reverdy

Alias Badges
“Tag” style alias icons, inspired by Georg Rebensteiner’s alias replacement icons. It has just a small rectangle with a single letter on it, instead of the whole word “Alias.”

Free Weather Icons
16 icons in a resolution of 24×24 pixels. Available in PNG, ICO, TIF, GIF and BMP formats. Freely available for commercial and non-commercial projects.

Iconlicious
Royalty-free toolbar icons.

Detailed 3-D Icon Set

Oxe Icons Set
18 PNG icons.

Mac Application Icons and Extras
Five icons in resolutions ranging from 64×64 to 512×512 pixels, in PNG and ICNS formats.

Mobile Icons

Free Mobile Berries (registration required)
This set consists of 80 64×64 pixel icons for websites GUIs, mobile applications and presentations.

New HTC Sense UI 2.1 Icons
Official icons from the newest HTC Sense UI Android 2.1. 20 PNG icons in 48×48 pixel resolution, plus five icons in PNG format at 128×128 pixel resolution. Use BetterCut to apply them.

Android Icon Set
Android application icons, Part 2. 34 PNGs at 600×600 pixels.

User Interface Icons

Gesturecons Multi-Touch Icons
These vector-based icons aid in the design, development, implementation and promotion of multi-touch interfaces, as well as in the creation of wireframes, digital help files and printed documentation. You could also use Gesturecons in applications to demonstrate how to complete tasks or to prompt users to interact with the application as they approach it. Swap symbols to create your own icons. Because these are scalable vector shapes, you can scale them to any size and alter them any way you wish. Use your favorite vector graphics application to edit.

User Interface Icon Sets
Gesturecons is a unique icon set featuring hands that perform 35 different multi-touch actions. This set will be useful for those creating iPhone and Google Android apps. The icons are in vector format, so they can be resized easily and used in tutorials and help guides for multi-touch devices.

E-Commerce and Payment Options Icons

Pos Machine Icons

Exclusive Payment Method Icon Set
This set contains six icons and includes a choice of eight different sizes: 12×12, 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, 256×256 and 512×512 pixels. The icons are entirely free for personal or commercial use.

Payment Icons
Free collection of popular credit card, debit card and payment icons in PNG format. The icons come in three different sizes, with both curved-edge and straight-edge versions that would look great on any website!

Pictograms

8 Free Pictogram Icon Libraries and Collections
Here is a collection of 50 professionally designed common signs. The icons are free and available in OpenType font format, allowing you to easily add symbols to your sign and way-finding designs. The pictograms are all commonly used signs for public services such as restrooms, telephones, first aid, elevators, information, restaurants, coffee shops, no smoking, baby, recycling, shower, reception desk and much more.

DOT Pictograms
68 free pictograms icons in PNG, ICO and ICNS.

Beautiful General Icon Sets

MODEEEERN Icon Set
“The concept for this icon set popped into my head in Art History class, studying the modern art movement, Bauhaus, post-modern art, etc. I was impressed by them, so, I decided to create a super-unique icon set. These icons may look like some vibrant color patched together, but they were actually designed. For example, the Photo icon is a round shape within another round shape that refers to a camera’s aperture.

El Bandito
Because you know you’re a bandit on the inside. The bandit icon comes in eight of your favorite delicious colors, complete with 16×16, 32×32, 64×64, 128×128, and 256×256 pixel versions, optimized for each size.

Fungiiiiiii Iconset
Designed to look futuristic retro (with red-cream and black), these icons turned out to be creepy in the end. That’s a good thing.

Icons: Porn Needs You
An assortment of icons from past work. 180 icons in total, 70 general icons, 60 folders and 50 vertical folders. Currently only in 256×256 pixel PNG format. Some are easier to use than others.

Warm Regards Bar
Three flavours, chocolate, strawberry and vanilla, in three formats, PNG, ICO and ICNS.

Cigarette Packet
Three icon sets in 256×256 pixel resolution and coming in PNG ICO and ICNS.

Women Icons
These icons are available as transparent PNGs at 256×256 and 128×128 pixels, and they are free for personal use. The set includes lipstick (two colors), vanity mirror, bottle of perfume, bracelet, aquamarine pendant, fountain pen, notepad, pocket calendar, wallet, handbag and silk scarf.

House
Download the ZIP file to get the PNG file in 512×512 pixels.

Icon Design “Castle”
A design castle available in two sizes, 256×256 and 128×128 pixels.

Umbrella
A pack of icons (825×750 pixels), including umbrellas of various sizes.

Touchscreens That Changed the World
These icons are for personal non-commercial use only.

“The” Lens
Awesome set of lens icons for non-commercial, personal and student projects. Get written consent if you want to use them.

Briefcase

Printer: Brother Mfc-410cn
The ZIP contains icons in both ICNS and PNG format (512×512 pixels).

Iomega Ultramax
The ZIP contains icons in both ICNS and PNG format (512×512 pixels).

Camera: Sony Alpha 380
Icon of the Sony Alpha 380 camera, in various sizes (512×512, 324×324, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 58×58 pixels).

Daft Punk Helmets
Set of 18 icons of the Daft Punk helmets (512×512 pixel resolution, and in ICO, ICNS and iContainer formats).

DeviantART Creative Icon
In 512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 48×48 pixel resolutions.

Ironman Icon Pack

CANON 500D ICON

Umbrella Icon
A set of umbrella icons in various sizes.

Suitcase Icon

IconTexto: IconTexto Blu-ray Discs
Free Windows Vista icon pack for your website or application. Ten icons in PNG, ICO and ICNS formats (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).

Icon Library, Iconshock blog
Put these on your desktop to remind yourself each day how important these environmental efforts are.

Centigrade
The set contains 60s. Most of them are at 32×32 pixels, making them great for desktop or rich Internet applications in the medical domain. To put a cherry on this pie, Centigrade also created some great-looking versions at 128×128 pixels, too. With perspective and reflective effects, these are real stunners on landing pages or touchscreen application menus. All icons come as PNG files in 32-bit color.

Social Icon Sets

social moleskin icon
Moleskin icons for RSS, Twitter, Delicious, Stumbleupon and Facebook. They come in 256×256 pixel resolution and are in PNG format.

Social Trucks Icons
An icon set created for the well-known blog Hongkiat, which is aimed at tech users, designers and bloggers and which is also in the Smashing Network. There are 10 colorful, spacious and unstoppable social trucks, coming in at a whopping 512×512 pixel resolution.

Professional Buddy Icon
This ZIP file contains icons in five sizes (512×512, 256×256, 128×128, 64×64 and 32×32 pixels).

Friendfeed Icons

IconTexto: Google Buzz Kit
Free Windows Vista icon pack for your website or application. Five icons in PNG, ICO and ICNS format (256×256, 128×128, 48×48, 32×32, 16×16).

Lontar Icons
A set of free social icons, available in PNG only.

24 Free Exclusive Google Buzz Icons
Google Buzz had a loud and controversial launch in February, shrouded in privacy issues and other concerns. Like it or not, Google Buzz is here to stay, and many blogs have added Buzz icons to their posts. Here is a free and exclusive set of icons for Buzz. The set includes 24 beautiful icons in raster and vector formats. They are completely free for personal and commercial use. You are just asked to link back to Webdesigner Depot if you use them.

OLED Social Icons
This is an experiment with the OLED style. Basically, every icon is a 16×16 pixel OLED display, with glowing dots and stuff.

Vector Social Media Icons
This free set includes 50 icons from the most popular social media networks. The icons are designed in 32×32 and 16×16 pixel resolution. The ZIP package gives you three different file formats: vector EPS, PNG and GIF.

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