55 Free High Quality Icon Sets
<br />We love free icons. We love to smash things. And we respect hard-working designers. Therefore we are regularly looking for talented artists and creative designers and we are happy to support them by showcasing their work in our magazine. If you are going to create an icon set and experience any problems releasing it or spreading the word — let us know, we may figure something out.<br />In the overview below we present 55 more excellent, free and professional icons for desktop and web design. Some of them can be used for both private and commercial projects. You may always use them for free in your private projects. Nevertheless, it is always worth to take a look at the license agreements — they can change from time to time.<br />You can also scan through the icons-related articles we’ve published before:<br /><br />40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download to download some fresh professional icon goodies<br />35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Setsto spice up your posts with some nice illustrations or enrich your desktop with outstanding dock icons,<br />Icons For Your Desktop and Icons For Your Web Designswith fresh high-quality free icons which you can use for your desktop; we also showcase free professional icon sets, buttons and vector graphics you can use for your web designs,<br />20 Free And Fresh Icon Setswith over 20 free, beautiful and fresh icon sets as well as references to further free icon libraries,<br /><br />Free Icons For Your Web Designs and Desktop<br />Concept Icons .0812 different icons in PNG format 256×256px. Designed by Roberto Abril Hidalgo.<br /><br />AffelAffel combines purple and black colors with some lighting and shadow details to make your computer look classy and as much special as it deserves. |Inside: 72 icons in PNG format with a resolution of 256×256 px. These icons may not be used in any way for commercial purposes.<br /><br />Smultron Icon PackSmultron better icons is an icon updater set for Smultron. Requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later, Smultron 2.1.5.<br /><br />Eico Studio Anniversary Icon Pack16 crisp, sharp and beautiful icons released by the Eico Design Agency to celebrate its first anniversary. Available in .ico, .png and .icns-format in the resolution 128×128px. <br /><br />Kidaubis 3D Icon - Blue series The icon set with three icons (E-Mail, music box and tool box) available.<br /><br />Beijing 2008 IconsA large “olympic” high-quality set with over 20 related icons.<br /><br />Jonas Rask IconsAn updated collection of various icons designed by Jonas Rask. We have featured Jonas in our previous posts; now the icons have been updated. Resolutions vary from 16×16px to 512×512px.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />The Shield Icon SetThis set includes 4 files in resolutions 256×256px, 128×128px, 64×64px and 32×32px. Available in formats .ico and .png. Designed by Marvin Ristau.<br /><br />Mac IconsThis set includes 5 .png-files in high resolutions. Designed in Illustrator CS.<br /><br /><br />Pure Icon PackPure Icon Pack contains 14 high quality (256×256 pixels) icons; PNG and ICO formats. This package includes: CD Icon, Computer Icon, Folder Icon, DVD Icon, Internet Icon, Network Icon, Search Icon, USB Icon, ZIP Icon and others.<br /><br />Mythique Design16 icons for a messanger user interface. Png, resolutions: 16×16px to 256×256px..<br /><br />Oxygen Icons SetOver 1000 professional desktop icons designed for KDE, packed in one single pack and released under GPL.<br /><br />Boxes Vista-like IconsThese icons are based on the new packaging for Windows Vista. 26 icons for various OS (13 icons in two categories: box with disc and without disc).Png & Ico format. Free for non-commercial use.<br /><br />Google and Facebook iconsMost of the icons featured here have been specifically made for the Fluid app for OS X Leopard. Sure you can use them for other things, but that’s what they were created for and that’s why each download includes an appl.icns file. This file is to be placed in its Fluid-generated application counterpart’s Resources folder. Designed by Chris Ivarson.<br /><br />Fruity Apples9 .png and .icns (Leopard ready : 512×512 px), 2 Bonus and 1 Wallpaper (2560×1600 px).<br /><br />I Love “Blondes” Beer Icon512×512px in png and icns.<br /><br />Document Icons512×512px in png and icns.<br /><br /><br />Niepces Camera Obscura IconsThese desktop icons show the Camera Obscura as it was used by Nicephore Niepce by 1826 or 1827 in an Aperture and iPhoto style and are intended as an homage to him. Mac + Win + Linux + iContainer. Leopard ready (512×512). Including 7 icons intended to replace Aperture or iPhoto, Aperture Library, iPhoto Library, Aperture Vault, Aperture Project and your picture folder.<br /><br />Facebook User Interface Icons25 Facebook ui icons in a high res and vector form… with slight adherences to the tango specification.<br /><br />CyberduckIcon replacement set, resolution: 512×512px. Application icon, document icons and download icons as well as bookmark drawer and bookmarks icon are available. Format: .dmg.<br /><br />Autumn Breeze Icons6 Icons for Windows in 8 Sizes. My Computer, My Pictures, Dustbin Full, Dustbin Empty, CD and one Icon for your fav. Design Software.<br /><br />Web Icons Pack7 desktop icons for Windows and OS X. Available for Windows and Mac.<br /><br />Whistle IconsWhat about using whistle for a search box? DesignFreak does exactly that.<br /><br /><br />Chemical Icon PackChemical Icon Set celebrates the creative chemical in our brains where all our creative projects come from in 4 Beautiful icons for your creative project or developer folders in neon chemical colors. Requirements: Mac OS X 10.1 or later.<br /><br />Small icons<br />ORB Icons10 basic user interface icons available in the resolution 16×16px, 32×32px and 128×128px. Designed by Alexy Goncharenko.<br /><br />Online Shop Icons9 icons in the format .psd. Registration is required to download the icons.<br /><br />eCommerce Icons32 free icons to use or remix in your eCommerce projects complete with master SVG file. <br /><br />BKdesign Icons Pack 1Some professional icon sets designed by the Chinese design agency Bottlebaby are available for free download.<br /><br />BKdesign Icons Pack 2Some professional icon sets designed by the Chinese design agency Bottlebaby are available for free download.<br /><br />Fugue icon set358 icons (16×16px) are included in PNG format. The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.<br /><br />Accessibility icon setThis set includes 9 icons one can use to display accessibility features or address accessibility issues. Released under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Germany, when used backlink is required.<br /><br />Heart and Ice Icon PacksIcons in both icon sets are available in resolutions 256×256, 6 PNGs in the first package, 8 PNGs in the second package.<br /><br /><br />Files icon setA large set of various filetypes in resolutions 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48, 64×64, 72×72, 96×96, 128×128. Format: ico.<br /><br />Weather conditions49 Icons 128×128 dedicated for Mobydock’s set of weather conditions or any other similar widget.<br /><br />40 Image Editing Icons“Some smiling lips, a camera lens, some vortex colour, a crop tool, a TV icon, and plenty more.” All icons are available within an Adobe Illustrator CS2 file (10.1 Mb).<br /><br />Keynote ObjectsThe package combines 100 easy to use and attractive objects. The background of all objects is transparent and can be used on any colored background. Each object can be changed in size, rotated, increased or decreased in opacity, fitted with shadows or even overlapped with one another to create extra effects. Keynote Objects are compatible with Keynote, iWeb, Pages, Microsoft PowerPoint and Word.<br /><br />Milky Icon SetA large vector icon set designed by Frexy design studio includes Format: png. Resolution: 256×256px.<br /><br /><br />Blogging IconsThis set is designed specifically for bloggers. There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format. Blogging Icons Set is released under Creative Commons License, please feel free to use it on your personal and commercial projects.<br /><br />Ferrari GaugeDownload includes iContainer (3 icons). Resolution: 512×512px. For personal use only.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />iMac Evolution IconsThe evolution of the iMac contains 6 different iMac icons, including the first iMac from 1998 and the newest model from 2007.<br /><br />Tasty IconsTwo tasty icons of coffee goodness. These two freebies come in the following sizes and formats: 48 x 48 px; 128 x 128 px; 256 x 256 px; 512 x 512 px; PNG (transparent backgrounds); CNS; ICO.<br /><br />KeyfobFormats: .icns, .png, 128×128px.<br /><br />Envelope IconsThis set features a variety of different envelopes and folders of different sizes which we foresee being extremely useful for many print and web design projects.<br /><br />Further icons<br /><br />Free Filetypes IconsA review of free filetypes icons by Zeusbox Studio.<br />Afterglow IconsA collection of various icons available for Mac. Among them - a New Zealand icon set which includes 27 mini icons.<br />Watiworks offers 12 small Mac OS X icon sets for free download.<br />Monochrom offers 22 unique icon sets in retro and vintage look. Among them are stickers, basic shapes and some really strange icons.<br />Iconlook is an icon search engine.<br />Everydayicons offers 9 basic icon sets with folders, boxes and notes.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <br />
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