gCons: Free All-Purpose Icons for Designers and Developers (100 icons + PSD)
Today we are glad to release gCons, a set of free all-purpose 32×32px icons for designers and web developers (100 icons). The icons come in 12 different colors and are available in PSD, PNG, JPG and GIF formats. This set was designed by Sarfraz Shoukat especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.
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.
- download the set (zip, 6.1 Mb)
- designer’s release page
Behind the design
As always, here are some insights from the designer:
“The open-source world is overwhelmed with design resources. For UI designers and website developers, there are a huge number of nice icon collections, but most of these collections are designed for a specific purpose, theme or industry. Most of the time, designers have to mix and match desired icons and customize them according to the requirements resulting in a lot of effort, un-balanced designs, and sometimes mere frustration. As a designer, I often feel the need of a set of generic icons that I can use easily in any design theme without having to customize their design, combination or color.
gcons is my contribution to the world of open source resources for designers and web developers. These icons are multi-purpose and can be a good fit in a number of scenarios like UI themes, technical diagrams, website design, prototype development etc.
Thank you very much, Sarfraz! We appreciate your efforts.
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Gus
July 14th, 2010 1:45 amGreat!!!
maikeroo
July 14th, 2010 1:54 amNice!
tom tom
July 14th, 2010 2:19 amamazing !!!
PSDhome
July 14th, 2010 2:23 amVery nice icons. Thanks a lot.
bthaxor
July 14th, 2010 2:28 amWow AWESOME!
Thank you so much!
Callum Chapman
July 14th, 2010 2:29 amGreat icons, love this minimal style!
Mike Knight
July 14th, 2010 2:30 amThese Icons look the same as the thousands that are already out there on other design sites. c’mon guys, be creative.
Matt Vickers
July 14th, 2010 7:50 amTranslation: Thanks for putting in some hard work, on your own time, to release these free icons that I can choose to use, or not use.
I’m going to continue to leech on the community. Thanks again!
Paul Anastasiu
July 14th, 2010 10:16 pmDItto! Sharing your own work (and a quality one) for free is just great. Thank you.
Mike Knight
July 17th, 2010 7:25 amThe great thing about speech, is that it’s also free. So are opinions.
Gazza
July 19th, 2010 7:08 amMike, I recommend you search other sites that have free fonts available and download something you like from them. Cheers,
Gazza
Mike Knight
July 20th, 2010 2:32 amIt seems like you are all missing the point! I have no need for Icons like these. I’m skilled enough to make my own, and have also been featured on Smashing Magazine. I have no interest in ‘leeching’ free icons as Matt put it, and why would I want free fonts?
The point I made is that these icons are the same as many others. That’s all. I never said they were bad or useless. But it does show what people read into things!
Jon
December 7th, 2010 2:41 pmI think it all come down to what *most of us* learned in kindergarten. If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. Mike, Your opinion is pointless here. If you don’t like them, don’t use them. End of story.
rafael
August 18th, 2011 2:20 am@mike so if you said that you we’re skilled enough as you say, why even click the link that brought you here ? just to brag that you’re better and say that you were featured?
I’m sure there was a preview for the set right?
flamed idea
August 18th, 2011 2:27 amyeah most of this are the same, but I agree with the designer
“As a designer, I often feel the need of a set of generic icons that I can use easily in any design theme without having to customize their design, combination or color.”
http://www.greepit.com/open-source-icons-gcons/
Aaron Richard
July 18th, 2010 10:34 amA lot of these icons *ARE* from different sets. I see icons from PICOL, Android Icons and Freshpixel just in the preview.
Oliver
July 14th, 2010 2:33 amNice one!
Thanks a lot!
Best wishes, Oliver
Ken Paulsen
July 14th, 2010 2:37 amI like such simple monochrome icons because it opens the possibility of easily overlaying a color hue, thus making them more compatible with a predefined color scheme.
Paul S
July 14th, 2010 2:43 amThanks! I will use them right now! And yes, they look a lot like existing items, but they are well made. And I needed something like this right now!
Minnix
July 14th, 2010 2:47 amWoW!
loopz
July 14th, 2010 2:48 amJust when I needed this! Thanks, great resource!
choise
July 14th, 2010 2:55 ampoorly not for retina display :(
Babak
July 14th, 2010 2:59 amGreat, Thanks a bunch, Sarfraz!
Yo Mamma
July 14th, 2010 3:03 am32×32 pixels, what is this 1990? I know it’s free but come on 32 pixels! How about posting the more useful and versatile illustrator files?
Karen
July 14th, 2010 6:31 amGreat icons! awesome collection.
If you visit the author page at: http://www.greepit.com/open-source-icons-gcons/ – He says that he will be releasing AI, CDR etc… formats soon.
Firewall
July 14th, 2010 3:31 amGreat!
Pubali
July 14th, 2010 3:39 amJust Smashing !!!!!!!!
JMac
July 14th, 2010 4:11 amThank you!
Mohsen
July 14th, 2010 4:30 amCan we use these Icons on Themeforest templates?
Vitaly Friedman
July 14th, 2010 5:35 amYes, sure. The icons are free for all private, public and commercial projects.
Michael Ward
July 14th, 2010 4:34 amLike the icons – and I don’t want to sound ungrateful, but at 32×32 only, they’re not going to prove very versatile.
Ideally there would be masked bitmaps for 16×16, 32×32, 48×48 and vector files for every size above.
Corey Burns
July 14th, 2010 4:39 amWow these look great! Thanks!
KanZonk
July 14th, 2010 4:43 amThanks
Massimiliano
July 14th, 2010 4:46 amTHANKSSSSS!!! Wonderful!
Kara
July 14th, 2010 5:14 amThanks!!!!
Alex
July 14th, 2010 5:27 amThis is absolutely awesome! Thanks a lot!
Markus Schulz
July 14th, 2010 5:28 amFirst of all I want to apologize for this unrequested critique.
I am missing some kind of graphical concept in this set. The single Icons look like cut’n'paste from wingdings1,2,3 and webdings. There is no special style in the symbolism, no continous stroke or line thickness, no recurring forms…
Just to take some arbitrary forms and color them white might be a bit to simple for using it in a real project.
Caleb Kester
July 14th, 2010 5:32 amWow! I was going to have to design icons just like these for a project at work today… not anymore!
Not anymore! You guys keep producing awesome time saving resources for free! Makes me want to support you more and more (keep those pdf books coming :D )
JC | Resrource Hive
July 14th, 2010 5:37 amThose are some great icons….really useful. Thank you so much!!!!
Posted them on my resource collection site @resourcehive.com/2010/07/14/gcons-free-all-purpose-icons-for-designers-and-developers-100-icons-psd-smashing-magazine/
paul
July 14th, 2010 5:43 amThank u for this icon set :)
Free Icon Sets for Cruzine Readers – Enjoy and Utilize! – http://www.cruzine.com/2010/07/13/free-icon-sets/
ddcat
July 14th, 2010 5:50 amnice! thanks!!
Yaggo
July 14th, 2010 5:52 amThe icons are great, thank you very much.
I don’t mean to be unthankful, but just one thing: why the colored background in PNG images instead of transparent background? Sure, one can extract icons with any background from PSD, but PNGs with transparent background would be more versatile & ready-to-use and enables you to use the same iconset with different color themes.
Also, 32×32 is kind of tiny size nowadays. Vector version available?
Tomek
July 14th, 2010 7:20 amThanks Sarfraz, very nice icons!
drlovecat
July 14th, 2010 7:43 amnice and cool icon
thanks a lot.
Reece
July 14th, 2010 7:56 amThere are several logos used in this set with copyright restrictions. How exactly are they free for commercial use? Most notably the Apple and USB logos…
Giselle
July 14th, 2010 8:19 amJust what I needed! Thanks so much for collecting this list!
Anton
July 14th, 2010 8:53 amThank you man! Great JOB!
João Almeida
July 14th, 2010 9:03 amBookmarked! I think they could become handy in the near future.
Pat
July 14th, 2010 9:08 amThese are awesome! Thanks so much.
Sam
July 14th, 2010 9:36 amI love great icon sets! I just have one small critique: some of these icons look very much like the sets included in that Pictodeck Keynote file that was floating around Smashing a while ago…
http://www.noupe.com/freebie/pictodeck-icon-set-over-700-free-pictograms-for-keynote.html
What do you guys think? Are Mike Knight and I the only ones that are a bit skeptical?
Mike Knight
July 17th, 2010 7:40 amThanks for the mention in your reply, and I agree with you. I just feel that there are too many Icons like this. Just browse iStock or Shutterstock and you’ll see. Most are exactly the same.
Thanks for agreeing with me.
Fabio
July 14th, 2010 9:46 amVery nice icons!!!
Thanks!
Pranav
July 14th, 2010 9:57 amThey look nice. Great work!!
Mario
July 14th, 2010 10:04 amwe get the PSD but the licence should be more explicit…
santabarbara
July 14th, 2010 10:04 amThanks! great collection.
Fernando de Sá
July 14th, 2010 10:04 amThanks!!!!
Maximus
July 14th, 2010 10:17 amHave you told you lately that I <3 Smashing Magazine??
Dustin
July 14th, 2010 10:24 amThanks a bunch, this will come in useful for many projects :)
Diana
July 14th, 2010 1:01 pmhehe, I did some icons similar to that ones the other day, I love the set, very neat :)
Katie
July 14th, 2010 2:32 pmThank you so much! It would be great if it included social media icons though.
Wendy
July 14th, 2010 3:00 pmvery nice! thank you
Aaron Newton
July 14th, 2010 4:06 pmThank you for this.
One complaint though – an ‘open source’ icon set should really give you the vectors, since I can’t really edit the source otherwise (i.e. I can’t really edit a 32×32 pixel icon). I would probably categorise these as ‘free’ as opposed to ‘open source’, as they don’t necessarily mean the same thing.
Still, free is free!
Sarfraz
July 14th, 2010 11:24 pmHey Aaron,
If you visit the designer page, it says he has planned the vector format. Hope to see soon.
Evan
July 14th, 2010 5:18 pmawesome! thanks heaps
Karas
July 14th, 2010 5:40 pmReally thanks for your effort of sharing all of this. Thanks..
Divine Antony
July 14th, 2010 7:57 pmGreat work dude…..
geoff
July 14th, 2010 8:42 pmawesome, thanks!
nurul amin russel
July 14th, 2010 9:49 pmcool gift
Bali
July 14th, 2010 10:21 pmthanks for sharing…all are very useful for designer as well as developer… :)
Yiannistaos
July 15th, 2010 12:03 amThank you!!
Gavaskee
July 15th, 2010 12:36 amnice icons. thank you
Greg Babula
July 15th, 2010 2:01 amLove it, thanks!
Sim0rn
July 15th, 2010 2:02 amAwesome! Love it!
khr2003
July 15th, 2010 6:15 amnice icons. Thanks
Henri
July 15th, 2010 6:42 amThank you !!
wabugi
July 15th, 2010 7:07 amMany thanks! Fantastic icon set :)
dznjuju
July 15th, 2010 10:08 amthanks a lot Safraz. Lovely icon set.
Ken
July 15th, 2010 10:53 amYES! I love iconsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
agung
July 15th, 2010 6:50 pmgreat… thanks a lot
betatown
July 15th, 2010 7:58 pmExcellent set of versatile icons. Greatly appreciated guys, and Kudos to Sarfraz.
Pinkfreud
July 16th, 2010 12:27 amLike a fool I used some of these icons only to realise later that I cannnot use them in a bigger format because they’re just 32×32.
Meh..
Caleb Kester
July 16th, 2010 7:29 amAccording to his site he’s working on bigger ones. Hopefully they get released soon.
[X]
July 16th, 2010 3:00 amFor designers? Are you kidding me? They are so plain, common and naive… Maybe for developers with no estetic feeling, but not designers. Most of them are very-low-estetic-quality.
easwee
July 16th, 2010 3:12 amMan have you ever heard of photoshop? You know you can edit this nicely drawn icons to suit your design?
easwee
July 16th, 2010 3:11 amThat’s what I call an useful icon set. Great work.
Dinesh Vishwa
July 16th, 2010 3:46 amnice collection..Thanks!!
Martin
July 17th, 2010 5:47 amThanks. Nice icons
Vimal
July 17th, 2010 6:30 amThanks. Nice collection.
Bnot
July 17th, 2010 6:52 amWow great thanks!!!
Ilia Levinson
July 19th, 2010 12:00 pmI frequently use http://www.iconfinder.net for icons, which I’m sure includes the icons mentioned above and many others. Best site I have found so far.
Midas
July 23rd, 2010 10:15 pmThx man! dats a whole lot of nice creamy icons
SunExpertArt
July 20th, 2010 1:15 pmGood collection and best site. Thanks a lot!!
Midas
July 23rd, 2010 10:10 pmWhat a wonderful set! thanx bruv
ardianzzzz
July 24th, 2010 12:55 amThanks!
panoupanagiwta
July 27th, 2010 4:40 amLook at these
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Pedro
July 27th, 2010 11:05 amWonderful!
M
July 31st, 2010 2:42 amToo much appreciation. Why is it a hundred? For the number? Some of them are superfluous, some are poorly designed. Better a set of ten useful icons…
Marxx
August 9th, 2010 9:47 amWow! Thanks you so much! Looks awesome…
Meenakshi
August 13th, 2010 9:13 pmThanks for beautiful icons..
Vik
September 1st, 2010 6:54 pmI like this set very much. Thank for such great thing.
niko
September 6th, 2010 10:00 pmkamsahabnida
Thanks ~
Erick
September 21st, 2010 7:55 amThis set is so cool. Really well designed. Loved it and thanks for sharing. Greetings from Mexico!
Ints
November 15th, 2010 11:54 amThanks a lot!
jacinto
November 27th, 2010 7:47 pmMuchas Gracias! por esta coleccion de iconos.
(Thank you very much! for this icon set)
Wescley
April 29th, 2011 1:18 pmNice collection, thanks!!!
anonymous
November 5th, 2011 5:36 amthank you !! great collection :D
Christoph
July 18th, 2012 9:48 amThank you very much.
Logesh
August 31st, 2012 9:37 amThank you very much..:-)
Contracting Info
September 3rd, 2012 6:57 pmWe are a group of volunteers and opening a new scheme in our community. Your web site offered us with useful information to paintings on. You have done a formidable task and our entire community might be thankful to you.
rai
September 26th, 2012 4:16 pmall good stuffs from smashing as always! thanks!
sankarpsla@gmail.com
April 2nd, 2013 7:03 amThanks..:)