The Ultimate Free Web Designer’s Icon Set (750 icons, incl. PSD sources)
There are thousands of free icon sets out there, and every other day we see new sets being released by the design community. In fact, Smashing Magazine has been releasing icon sets for years now, too. But today’s release is particularly important. Over the last 1.5 years, Oliver Twardowski was designing and preparing an “ultimate web designer’s icon set” exclusively for Smashing Magazine and its readers. Today we release the third, final version of the set, an extensive pack with over 750 free icons (48×48px) for designers and Web developers. The .PSD-sources are available for free download as well.
The set consists of web application icons, user interface icons, e-commerce icons, general use icons, desktop icons, blog icons, smiley icons, button icons, keyboard icons, national flags icons, popular online services icons and many others.
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.
- preview 1 (web development, UI icons)
- preview 2 (national flags icons)
- preview 3 (keyboard icons)
- preview 4 (online services icons)
- download the icon set for free (.zip, 5.5 Mb)
- download the .PSD source files for free (.zip, 10.8 Mb)
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer himself:
“In January 2009 I released my first pixel-based iconset ‘Flavour’ right here on the Smashing Magazine. A couple of months later, in May 2009, I extended that set and released ‘Flavour Extended’. Now, over one year later it’s time to finish this set. ‘Addictive Flavour’ will be the last part of the Flavour series. (At least for now I think it will be ^_^ ).
In my releases I asked you for your feedback on the iconset and that feedback was overwhelming. I received hundreds of e-mails and read even more comments here and on Twitter. With ‘Addictive Flavour’ I hope to give you the icon set that you wanted and that you need for your web development projects. Though, if there is a special icon missing in the set that you need for your project or site, please feel free to contact me on Twitter (@mywayhome or via e-mail (icons [at] addictedotocoffee dot de) and we’ll see what we can do for you!
I want to thank all of you for your great support with this huge icon set. Especially I want to thank Magda, Lars, Martin LeBlanc, Bastian Allgeier, the team at Smashing Magazine and all of the beta-viewers who did a fantastic job on reviewing my work and giving me feedback, love and inspiration!
Please stay tuned for more of my releases here in Smashing Magazine or via my Twitter stream.
Thanks a lot, Oliver.
Thank you very much, Oliver! We appreciate your efforts.
Puneet Sakhuja
April 15th, 2010 1:11 amThanks for the lovely icons SM! Love the ‘keyboard’ ones :)
Cheers
RyJek
April 15th, 2010 1:12 amVery nice, appriciated.
ximi
April 15th, 2010 1:14 amGreat additions to an already great icon set! Thanks so much
Reader123
April 15th, 2010 1:16 amthanks SM, I’ll be using them very soon!
Martin LeBlanc Eigtved
April 15th, 2010 1:16 amGreat work Oliver. Thanks a lot.
Teddy
April 15th, 2010 1:20 amA nice supplement for this icon set would be icons for game consoles and their online services. It’s already a really nice set though.
Issa Nabie Bangs
December 4th, 2011 1:41 pmI like some
Ben
April 15th, 2010 1:25 amA nice icon set indeed. And 750 of them as well. Thanks Smashing Mag and Oliver Twardowski, I’ll put them to good use.
Kris Handley
April 15th, 2010 1:26 amThat’s very generous, thanks very much. And a great set of icons too.
Adrian
April 15th, 2010 1:31 amMost of these packs now are on iconfinder. I find that there is no reason to download icon packs anymore, unless working offline.
Tom Hermans
April 15th, 2010 1:32 amwow! very generous, Thanks A LOT !
angeloff
April 15th, 2010 1:33 amGreat Collection. Tnx a lot!
Carlo Rizzante
April 15th, 2010 1:33 amEhi, that’s great, really! Thank you man!
Bryce Wisekal
April 15th, 2010 1:51 amVery exciting! Thank you for making these available!
Keiron Lowe
April 15th, 2010 2:09 amGreat Icon set, only bad thing is the cloud icons, they look terrible like the were quickly put together last minute, apart from them its a good set.
David A
April 15th, 2010 9:07 amKeiron, allow me to quote from Manners 101: When receiving a gift, the gracious response is “thank you.”
Keiron Lowe
June 29th, 2010 1:02 amI am gracious for the icons, like I said the rest of the set is great but I just dont beleive the few icons I mentioned were up to the standard of the others.
Hernan
April 15th, 2010 2:14 amThanks. Very nice and useful :)
Rizqi Djamaluddin
April 15th, 2010 2:15 amAm I right to assume we’re allowed to modify them, at least on a small scale? Some are of less contrast/saturation then I’d prefer for my projects, but some quick color correction can fix that I think.
In any case, great set, especially the keyboard ones in particular for me. We all appreciate the hard work!
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 2:29 amHi Rizqi,
that’s totally right. The .psd sources are there to learn and customize.
If you modify the icons I would love to see the results! :)
Just sent me a quick reply on twitter (@mywayhome).
Thanks,
Oliver
Rizqi Djamaluddin
April 15th, 2010 8:15 amAnd thanks for the reply too, now I can start toying with them in peace. I’ll let you know if I come up with anything interesting by twitter, then. It’s great to be able to interact with the artists themselves, instead of just holding an icon set.
OrT
April 15th, 2010 2:17 amExcellent work, thank you very much.
Rockstar
October 13th, 2011 9:19 pmCan u please tell me how to use this and by what procedure…. I am unable to do so… Or can u please post a link where there is a brief procedure… Thanks in advance
daGrevis
April 15th, 2010 2:23 amThis is great! :) Ty
Lindkold
April 15th, 2010 2:47 amNice set thx… It has been added to our pool.
Tom Klaassen
April 15th, 2010 2:54 amThanks for the great icon set. This will come in handy!
Anfex
April 15th, 2010 2:56 amThank you for this big share! :)
Chris
April 15th, 2010 3:03 amGreat! I have searched for a long time for an icon set that contains all icons i need. Now i found a good alternative set to the fam fam iconset. Thank you very much :)
number 08
April 15th, 2010 3:08 amThe detail to your icons are eye opening. thanks for sharing
greig
April 15th, 2010 3:09 amsexual
Tobias at Berlin
April 15th, 2010 3:17 amDarf man das Set im kommerziellen Arbeiten verwenden, ohne dass mich irgendwer verklagt?
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 3:46 amHallo Tobias,
das kommt ganz drauf an, ob mir die Verwendung gefällt. Wenn es nicht gut aussieht hetze ich meine Anwälte auf Dich! :P
Nein, mal im Ernst: Das Set ist vollkommen kostenlos. Auch in kommerziellen Projekten.
Ich würde mich jedoch immer über einen Link im Impressum o. Ä. freuen.
Viele Grüße,
Oliver
Tobias at Berlin
April 15th, 2010 6:42 amDank dir
Hertha 2. Liga
April 15th, 2010 3:30 amTobias, da musst du mal lesen, was da steht. Kannst die benutzne wie du willst, keiner wird dich verklagen. Aber Hertha ab in die 2. Liga. DIE SCHANDE DEUTSCHLANDS.
Igor
April 15th, 2010 3:35 amWHERE IS UKRAINIAN FLAG?
I BELIEVE THAN COUNTRY WITH 48 MIL POPULATION CAN’T BE IGNORED?
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 3:51 amDid I forget it??? Really???? Shame on me!
Here it is for you: http://cl.ly/Nzv
Can you forgive me? :)
Best wishes, Oliver
Yura
April 15th, 2010 6:29 amThanks, you’re awesome :)
Igor
April 15th, 2010 12:45 pmof course forgive :)
Thanks for icon
LC
April 15th, 2010 5:07 amOh yes it can, posts in caps lock as well :)
Yura
April 15th, 2010 5:19 amI thought exactly the same.
And, LC, 48 million people are not to blame for one guy expressing his WTF in all-caps.
As awesome as the set looked to me at first sight, I was disappointed when I didn’t see my country’s flag. I don’t see a point in an incomplete flag collection.
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 5:51 amI am really sorry if I missed your country. I really did not want to miss any.
I mean – hey – I even got the Vatican flag there!
If I missed one: Please tell me and I’ll provide the link to the .png file when it’s done. Promise! :)
Thanks, Oliver
Ben Jamieson
April 15th, 2010 6:09 amNo flag for The Bahamas either.
We’re pretty used to being ignored/forgotton by the world, but it still hurts!
>sigh<
Yura
April 15th, 2010 6:26 amOliver, it’s Ukraine here. But I’d say there’s a high chance of missing country of many other smashing magazine visitors – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_sovereign-state_flags lists twice as much flags.
And yet, if there’s a country without internet connection at all, like North Korea, designers might still want to use it’s flag.
Nixta
April 15th, 2010 9:07 amThanks so much for all the icons! Great job. Don’t feel bad about missing a country – they’re changing so fast these days it’s hard to keep up. That said, Slovenia isn’t there. How dare you miss out my teenie tiny country with only 2 million people (half of whom seem to have settled abroad) ;p
Thanks again! So generous.
Igor
April 15th, 2010 12:49 pmOliver again thanks for collection, and sorry for CAPS letters :) I just type message and press SUBMIT. My original message doesn’t contain any negative subtext.
Dennis
April 16th, 2010 12:28 amI always like looking at the United Nations Member States. These represent (in my simple mind) the countries of the world. Take a look here: http://www.un.org/en/members/ or here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_member_states
You currently provide 94 country flags, but there are 192 United Nations member states – you might want to add them to your icon set.
Thanks for your efforts!
Oliver
April 16th, 2010 2:52 amHey Dennis.
Thanks for that link. Just perfect to check out the states.
Maybe my set isn’t as finished as I thought it would be.
And maybe the fantastic guys at smashing magazine will give me the chance to release an add-on package for the flags.
Keep your eyes open. We’ll see! :)
Khubano
April 23rd, 2010 2:52 pmMissed the Cuban flag too.
Thanks for the rest of the icons.
Arturo
April 15th, 2010 3:36 amLove this icon set, can’t wait for a project where I can use it.
Jürgen
April 15th, 2010 3:38 amOli, du bist echt wahnsinnig ;)
Wie kann man überhaupt so viel Zeit für sowas haben?! :D
Nette Sachen auf jeden Fall – danke dir.
Beste Grüße
Jürgen (gg25)
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 3:52 amJürgen!!
Diese Zeit hat man nicht, die nimmt man sich!
Und für EUCH da draussen mache ich das gern!
Freut mich wenn’s gefällt!
Liebe Grüße, Oli
Ian Droogmans
April 15th, 2010 3:52 amVery nice collection! Keep it up and thank you for sharing your hard work!
Tony Nguyen
April 15th, 2010 3:57 amYou guys are first class. Thanks.
Brian Jones
April 15th, 2010 4:22 amNice collection Vitaly & Thank you for the share. Yourself and S.M’s continued support for the community is truly admired!
Vitaly Friedman (Smashing Editorial)
April 15th, 2010 6:29 amThank you, Brian, I appreciate your support.
phpbussi
April 15th, 2010 4:26 amMany thanks for this set! The best and maybe most complete set out there!!!
Peter Enis
April 15th, 2010 4:31 amcraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy! thanks a lot!
Mohsen
April 15th, 2010 4:33 amcan we use these icons in Themeforest?
Oliver
April 15th, 2010 5:53 amYes you can.
But it would be great if you could provide a link back to this article.
Thanks, Oliver
Jason Nelson
April 15th, 2010 4:34 amAnother great set of icons! Thank you :)
Ph99Ph
April 15th, 2010 4:37 amOne of the best icon sets I’ve ever seen!
Val
April 15th, 2010 4:40 amThank you! You ROCK!
I love your site. Because of the relevant information and easy style, Smashing Magazine is my first choice for web design and web development information.
lush
April 15th, 2010 5:04 amwell done dude! this is fantastic! :)
goofydg1
April 15th, 2010 5:08 amLove that it includes the PSD. Very useful.
ejosvp
April 15th, 2010 5:36 amwowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!!!!
Ramm
April 15th, 2010 5:45 amThanks
Duncan Brown
April 15th, 2010 5:46 amAwesomely useful… thankyou!
Sully
April 15th, 2010 5:49 amExcellent!
Seba
April 15th, 2010 5:51 amThanks a lot!!! Greetings from Slovenia
David Eldridge
April 15th, 2010 5:57 amThat is excellent. Thanks so much. Wow!
LC
April 15th, 2010 6:09 amThanks for this hard work, will try to put it to good use.
Santosh
April 15th, 2010 6:13 amThank you for this big share! :)
gavinbloys
April 15th, 2010 6:43 amSmashing! thanks for the downloads
aldrin
April 15th, 2010 6:50 amSo much nice icon sets! I’m pretty sure this can will be useful!
JC
April 15th, 2010 7:28 amThanks to both Oliver and Smashing for this great resource…not only are the icons great but to get all the source files too is just incredible. What a useful and invaluable tool. THX!
I posted these up on my free resource site @ http://resourcehive.com/2010/04/15/the-ultimate-free-web-designer%e2%80%99s-icon-set-750-icons-incl-psd-sources-smashing-magazine/
Cindy
April 15th, 2010 7:50 amAwesome – thank you! Saves me from having to hunt down Social Media service icons. And I love that you’ve included the Ghana flag in there – woohoo!
Stephanie
April 15th, 2010 8:05 amOh. My. Gosh!! Thank you so much! It is so difficult to find icons that I am allowed to freely use in themes and templates. These are great and I appreciate this icon set very much!
Adam
April 15th, 2010 8:19 amExcellent collection. Many thanks for the work put into this.
fiji.siv
April 15th, 2010 8:22 amVery nice. I like generic icon sets. Sets themed around coffee or office chairs or worms are hard to utilize unless you’re working on a site that requires that genre. (Coffee-drinking worms in office chairs anyone?) But generic navigation or “web” icons are nice because they can be dropped anywhere.
snnaqvi
April 15th, 2010 9:13 amThanks, these are useful.
Sushie
April 15th, 2010 9:17 amThanks a lot!
I love Smashing Magazine, i always come here to find great graphics. ^^
huiragubi
April 15th, 2010 9:39 amThanks a lot . awesome!
Phill
April 15th, 2010 9:48 amNIce icon set. But… where’s the Slovenian flag? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Slovenia
Oliver
April 16th, 2010 2:47 amSorry that I missed it!
Here it is: http://cl.ly/A8w
:)
Brandon
April 15th, 2010 10:07 amWow, these are amazing, Thank You!!
sbuster
April 15th, 2010 10:34 amExelents! i like…..
Syed Balkhi
April 15th, 2010 10:35 amThank you Oliver for designing this. And much thanks to Smashing Magazine team for brining this to us for free.
John Walker
April 15th, 2010 10:46 amBeautiful icons, love it! Going in my list of resources for sure!
Maggie
April 15th, 2010 11:24 amLovely! Thanks so much!
Editha Fuentes
April 15th, 2010 11:49 amAwesome collection!!! Thank you so much for all your work!!!! ^^
Damian
April 15th, 2010 12:16 pmVery nice :) Thx.
Toni
April 15th, 2010 12:39 pmFantastic icon set, thanks guys :)
Kelly
April 15th, 2010 2:02 pmWhats the point of designing anything in Photoshop? This would be a lot more useful if it was vector and therefore scalable.
Oliver
April 16th, 2010 2:49 amCould be true. But when I go and design ‘em in PS on a 48x48px canvas I can assure that the will be crisp and as pixel perfect as I want them to be.
Lam Nguyen
April 15th, 2010 3:12 pmGreat icons! Thanks for that although I cannot download it cuz some reasons. I’ll try it later!
Leah
April 15th, 2010 4:27 pmFantastic icons. Thanks Oliver & Smashing Magazine! Such a fabulous resource for all things design!
gmathiou
April 15th, 2010 5:17 pmgreat set! thanks…
Hastimal Shah
April 15th, 2010 8:26 pmThanks for Fantastic icons.
Sanjay Surani
April 15th, 2010 9:55 pmNice Collection
V
April 15th, 2010 11:28 pmAppreciate. Thank you.
Rene Sebastian
April 15th, 2010 11:33 pmFuge… that’s the only set you need ;-)
John's Graphisme
April 15th, 2010 11:56 pm// WOOOOWWWW a great icon set. Yesterday i have design a set too : http://bit.ly/ae9rdz there are only 16 icons but they are pretty too.
Milenko Curcin
April 16th, 2010 12:15 amThanks for the icons, always looking for good stuff ;)
NJMH
April 16th, 2010 1:18 amI absolutely love the layer name in the Internet Explorer icon PSD. Damn right.
Oliver
April 16th, 2010 1:28 amHey NJMH,
I am soooooo f*cking happy that you saw it!
Just had to do that! :D
Oliver
OneSmallStepWeb
April 16th, 2010 2:01 amHad too check it out as well. LMAO ¦oo¦
OneSmallStepWeb
April 16th, 2010 1:55 amFantastic quality. I’m always trying to find a complete set like this esp. in psd source. Thanx a million…
Weebii
April 16th, 2010 2:22 amthank’s you for this collection
Edwin
April 16th, 2010 4:04 amCool Icon set. Just what I need.
Cheers……… :D
carimu
April 16th, 2010 5:56 amthanks :)
Jµ
April 16th, 2010 10:18 amWoah !
gytis
April 16th, 2010 1:47 pmthanks
Austin Cooper
April 16th, 2010 11:05 pmFantastic set. Many thanks to Oliver and Smashing.
Hellones
April 17th, 2010 12:30 amThank for the appealing icons.
I am please to try it on my next work.
ramalho
April 17th, 2010 7:35 amHi WEB Family,
Great collection & very useful.
Thanks for sharing
Carsten B.
April 17th, 2010 7:43 amOli, super Iconset! Gefällt mir echt super, mal schauen wann es bei das erste mal zum Einsatz kommt.
Mach weiter so!
Oliver
April 17th, 2010 7:51 amMach ich!
Danke für das Lob! :)
Grüße, Oli
Carlos
April 17th, 2010 7:48 amThe icons are great, thanks! :)
Tobi Laniyan
April 17th, 2010 9:48 amThanks for uploading and designing these I will certainly have use for the flag icons its people like you who design and share these assets that really keep the industry going.
Thanks
T
PIPEMZLS
April 17th, 2010 9:55 amSo Realistic And Fantastic Icons, Thanks For this Job!
The Source is Very Useful for Me,
Thanks Again!
Loddhur Obluràschj
April 17th, 2010 10:38 amWTF!! Blame on you sir! Where is Zamunda flag?
4,5 million people live in the peaceful Zamunda.
Greetings from the city of Zwandrazbradrjnaw.
Oliver
April 17th, 2010 2:38 pmWhat?
Zamunda?
They have a prince, right?
I forgot the zamunda-flag??
How can that be??
And more important: How does that flag look like???? Google just won’t help me! ;)
Taiyo
April 18th, 2010 4:18 amThanks for a big share
Irene
April 18th, 2010 5:54 pmGreat!!!
thx :)
Michael
April 19th, 2010 12:57 amThis is absolutely incredible… I can’t believe these are being given away! Thank you very much!
Oliver
April 19th, 2010 4:17 amHey Michael,
feel free to send some money! :D
Oliver
Santosh
April 19th, 2010 2:15 amIcons are really helpful. Thanks
Replicant
April 19th, 2010 1:24 pmAre you kidding ? Ugly icons, no matter how many…
Oliver
April 19th, 2010 11:46 pmCould you be more specific? What is it that you don’t like?
Best regards, Oliver
Denise
April 19th, 2010 6:55 pmAWESOME set. Thank you so much for your hard work and for sharing!
Afraz
April 20th, 2010 2:22 am@Replicant are you a rebel ? How much cute icons they are ? if you have much fantastic than these, share with us. We want to see your creations. Don’t try to break anyone’s heart in just a joking way. I appreciate Oliver’s hard working and patience to face the comment from the persons like you. 750 is a huge number of icons.
I again appreciate you Oliver. Thank you so so so much.
Afraz
Oliver
April 20th, 2010 11:49 pmHey Afraz,
thank you!
In fact I don’t mind to read comments like the ‘Replicant’ one.
I do not want to say that my iconset will please every single reader!
If he thinks the icons are ugly he will not be the only one and I am totally fine with that.
But if he would provide a “ugly, because:” I could try to fit his expectations in the next try.
If he doesn’t I don’t care at all what he thinks! :)
Bye, Oliver
Taylor
April 20th, 2010 4:59 amslick icons… thx!