Collection of Sites Providing Free Web Icons and Buttons
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Icons are a necessity with almost every application/website one creates. They help you provide a better user experience.
I have compiled a list of sites providing icons, buttons and images for free! (click on images to enlarge them)
* This post is updated frequently. Last Updated: 31st March, 2009 *
- SEMLabs Blog Icon Set:a collection of free 48×48 icons for blogs.
SEM Labs Blog Icon Set
- Free Matte Icon Set from Momenticon: free set of 100 icons, available in two optimized sizes - 16×16 and 32×32
Free Matte Icon Set
- Web 2.0 Icons By Nicolai
Download host of web 2.0 style icons in thumbnail form as well as large sizes for your use for free (speech bubble, chart, home, computer, email, globe, rss, butterfly, printer, cell phone, security, wine bottle)
- IconGalore
Windows XP Style Icons designed as per Microsoft standards are available for free for non-commercial purposes
- MySpace Icons
An extensive collection of icons for use on MySpace, hi5, Friendster, Xanga, Piczo, Orkut, TagWorld, Tagged, or any of the others. You can get the html code to embed the icons anywhere you want. The icons are well arranged in several categories like: animals, celebrities, summer, beach, bikes, birds, butterfly, cat, disney, couples, cute, girly, celebrations, doll, flowers, food, holidays, sexy, naughty, party nature, school, money, heart etc.
- Free, Open Source icon set
Around 245 icons for use in web applications. Released under Creative Commons license. All the images are gif files. They are categorized under “Alerts and color codes”, “Buttons”, “Documents and folders”, “Misc Metaphors and objects”, “Text Editor, “User and groups”
- Huge Archive of free icons and buttons
I have highlighted some of the icons for this site here but you can find much more when you go there. Some of the ones which I found interesting are: Metalic and Weather icons, Orange 3D Glass Arrow Icons, Free Stick Men icon graphics
- 72 Free Vector Glass Buttons and Bars:
This set is a pack of free vector glass buttons and bars for your webpage or blog. Since they are in vector format, they can be easily manipulated and scaled to fit your layout. There are some extra alphabets appended at the end of that post.
- Web2.0 site’s logo: Here you will find 3D like logos for the popular web 2.0 sites like del.icio.us, flickr, youtube, technorati, feedburner and also an icon for rss. The images are available for free usage and can be downloaded as a zip (which has png and ico versions of the files)
- twotone icons for free!: find lot of icons both in gif and psd format.
- Ganato.com: provides 16 sets of icons in psd format. The icons are grouped into 16 sets namely: document icons, email icons, folder icons, user icons, trash icons, symbols icons, weather icons, mix icons, CD icons, book icons, bullets icons, toolbar icons (4 sets), number bullet icons. You can use Easy Graphic Converter to convert from psd to gif, jpg etc.
- The Drunkey Love iconset: Version 2.0 of “The Drunkey Love Iconset” consists of over 100 16×16 icons in PNG format.
- Dani from Kinkythought.com: modified and added to the Drunkey Love Iconset.
- Tiny Little Icons on strawbee.com: 21 little 16×16 icons in png format available for download.
- famfamfam.com: provides four set of icons. They have one of the biggest collection of icons.
- Silk
- Mini
- Flags
- Silk
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- Mint (under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License): the creator allows you to use it but provide a link back.
- Mint (under Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License): the creator allows you to use it but provide a link back.
- E-lusion.com (GreyScale): Greyscale is a set of 40 greyscale icons which each fit into a 34 x 34 pixel area (licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Australia)
- N.Design Studio (Mini Pixel Icons): Over 320 mini pixel icons! All Free!
These mini icons are 14×14px with transparent background. They are specially designed for header or side navigation buttons. Feel free to use these icons for your site (personal or commercial). However, if you are using more than 10 different icons, you are supposed to give a link back to N.Design Studio. You may NOT resell these icons.
(only part of the collection shown in the image above: click to enlarge)
- Sanscons: Sanscons is an icon set that allows for CSS-based coloring and framing. The icon design is exactly the same, the only thing missing is a background - allowing you to set it to any color you so desire. Bitcons, the predecessor of Sanscons, is a mini-pixel icon set (16×16 pixels) containing 121 individual icons for various subjects.
(only part of the collection shown in the image above: click to enlarge)
- ASPNET Icons: more than 300 professionally designed icons for ASP .NET applications.
- Markup: has six set of icons.
(only part of the collection shown in the image above: click to enlarge)
- Parrotdise is a free and colorful set that contains 18 parrot icons.
- MouseRunner.com: It has a huge collection of icons in various categories. Most icons are available for Mac and Windows and they come in various sizes, plus the PNG’s that make up the icons are also included.
I will be updating this list on a regular basis. Please refer to this site here for lot of useful links to icons along with license information.
- FeedIcons.com: It has collection of rss feed icons in various formats, sizes and background colors (supported formats: AI, EPS, SVG, PSD, PDF, PNG, JPG, GIF)
- Sweetie: 150+ icons licensed under Creative Commons license (commercial use if fine)
- graphicPUSH Blog Icon Pack: This free blog version contains ten core icons that will get you rolling on your site with the basics like commenting, categories and more.
- yellowpipe.com: has a comprehensive collection of icons for Mac, Mac Office, Windows (XP icons, Vista icons), Linux(Gnome, Tux) etc.
- Web Control Icons: has free-to-use web icons for admin systems.
- Bullet Madness : a free bullets project at Stylegala: It is a list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by our users.
(the picture above only shows part of the collection)
- pixelpressicons.com: free icons for blog, sites, software (in gif format)
- AJAX Activity Indicators: get Ajax activity indicators in black or white background.
(only part of the collection shown in the image above, click to enlarge)
- Deviant Art: has a collection of icons in avatars, emoticons, OS Icons, Cursors, Miscellaneous, Dock Icons categories
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Nice list. Some of the icons listed here are distributed in PNG format, which can cause a few hassles with Internet Explorer 6 and transparency. Theres a quick description of how to address this problem at http://bjorkoy.com/post/show/8
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Some more open content/open source options? http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Icons
Over 15,000 Free icons
http://www.freeiconsweb.com
Nice list
Great,thx
Thanks “Gui Design”
Thats Great Man !!!
This is gonna save me hours of messing with fiddly stuff to end up with crap results !!!
great collection of times.
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Nice list!
Here’s another: Free Icon Set, XP icons and Vista icons
Some more free icons. It is a growing list.
http://www.webdesign-guru.co.uk/icon/
Can I add myself to the list?
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this is a nice collection of sites for icons for web and applications as well.
thankx for this list.
Nice icons ,many thanks
Very usefull, great collection, cool people
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tx , i will use this for my site htp://www.voetbal.be , take a look in a few weeks.
Nice collection.
Nice collection! Very handy! Here are more! http://www.iconiza.com!
Nice list! http://www.stemplate.com is also an excellent resource!
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List of free royalty free icons:
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Nice list of sites you have there, i recommend This site…. is great ….they have really cool free icons ready to download…
http://www.iconshock.com/web-icons.php
Nice list!
Here are some sites that offer navigation icons and buttons:
http://www.buttonland.com
http://www.freewebsitebuttons.com
Nice stuff
wooooooooooww great icons
i will use for my web applications
thanks you
regard
lukman
It is just wonderful buttons i have seeen ever.
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This is a great resource for me. thanks mate.
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Thanks
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Add my site too, if you can
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Small free icons and favicon gallery http://www.fineicons.com/
Thanks for putting this article together; good job.
This is a great collection and reminds me of an article with loads of free icon sets on this website.
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http://www.2raccoon.com/articles/free-glossy-social-bookmarks-icon-pack another free pack
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Thanks a lot for the complete list.
These icons are really nice. Liked them and appreciate the webmaster effort to put them for free use. Keep it up
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This is another free tool for making your own icons. http://www.flavorstudios.com/tools/iphone-icons.aspx
I think is worthy of being added to the list. I found it to be very easy and super fast. I also like that it explains how to use the icons on your iphone and how to use icons on your website. If you want to generate favicons, apple-touch-icons, iphone application icons and know how to use them, check it out this icon generator.
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Nice collectionn of icon for me…
Awesome cool cute collections