Icons

33 Killer Web Icon Sets for Free

Chris Bowler on September 15th 2009

Everybody loves free. This is especially true for something of value and the icons we’ve listed below have just that. If you’re a designer or developer, you can’t go wrong with adding some spice to your design or application using any of these icons.

Click the images to visit the source. And please remember to read the specific licenses for each set and use accordingly. Enjoy!

Social Media

Social Network Icon Pack

Created by Rogie King, this has to be one of the nicest sets of icons for social media, both in depth and quality. Each icon looks smashing and with over 40 social applications included, you should be covered.

Feedicons

Over the past couple of years, there has been a glut of free RSS based icons made available. Many were large and glossy and somewhat garish. Not these — this set contains 69 icons that are very tastefully done.

Social Bookmark Iconset

There are two packs here, containing icons for most bookmarking or link-sharing web applications.

Social Web Buttons

In the same vein, this set contains button icons for bookmarking services.

Handycons 2

This unique set is hand drawn and consists of 20 icons for social web applications.

Polaroid

Another great looking group of social web application icons, all made to represent a polaroid photo.

Free Glossy Social Icons

From the same source, here’s another set based on these web services. This pack resembles iPhone application buttons.

Applications

WYSIWYG Sapphire

A nice set of application icons, perfect for an online editor.

Free Vector Set from monofactor

This a simple and clean set of 25 icons, all in vector format.

WebAppers

This is a more cartoonish set for use in an application.

WebInjection

Here’s a great set of detailed icons that could be used in an application or a new web design.

Danish Royalty Free

This is an exquisite set of all purpose icons that would nicely adorn a web application.

iPhone

OpenPhone

A gorgeous set of icons for mimicking the app buttons on the iPhone interface.

iPhone Template and Material

This site provides a lot of backgrounds and icon examples for working with the iPhone. They could also be used in other implementations as well.

GLYPHISH

This is a widely used set of icons that, as the creator describes, can be used for “Designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they’re also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.”

Well said.

General Web Design

ROUNDer

An interesting set of 43 icons that cover a lot of different web and desktop tools.

Gmail from iconaholic

A nice set of icons for everyone’s favourite web mail application.

Iconshack

Check out the full list of icons from this designer. Plenty to choose from, but here’s our favourites.

Banking Icons

Mac Web Icons

Office Icons

Construction Icons

Shutterbug

A nice set of photography related icons.

iconeden

This site has a number of great free offerings that work well for web design.

Bright

Here’s a good all around set perfect for print or web design.

Fresh

This one is a great set of financial related icons.

Milky

Another professional set that covers multiple themes.

Birdies

And lastly, here’s a nice set based on Twitter.

Ruby on Rails

This small batch of icons are perfect for any Rails-related projects.

Office Space

Yes, I’m a sucker for icons of cups of coffee …

The City Icons

A funky batch of mixed icons in png and ico format.

Bagg and Boxes

Another interesting set, this one includes a lot of laptop and camera related icons.

Wheat Icons

This group of icons were intended for the Menu bar in OS X, but they actually work well in other situations.

Sidebar Replacements

Another set intended for use in OS X, there are PNG files included that would nicely spruce up a web design.

Token

Consisting of 128 icons in dark and light, this beautiful set could be used in various forms of media.

The End

The web can be wonderful place, especially when talented individuals share their hard work. I hope you enjoy putting some of the icons to good use!

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Hbiloo
September 15th
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A great icons collection from a great website.
Thx.
Arania Jain
September 15th
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Simply awesome!! These icons are so neat and crisp
Tylor
September 15th
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Great sets! It would be nice to see a article with commercial free licenses.
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Nahed
September 15th
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great post! very useful
Nathan
September 15th
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I’ve seen all of them in the past – does it mean I’m now officially a geek?
- Chris Bowler
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  It might
Rahul - Web Guru
September 15th
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An impressive collection indeed. Thanks.
xnt14
September 15th
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Awesome Icons! Bookmarked, Thanks
Ray
September 15th
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Nice post! I would suggest “Blogging Icons Set” too.

http://www.blogperfume.com/free-glossy-blogging-icons-set-for-bloggers/
Chameleon
September 15th
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This is absolutely AWE-SOME-AND-SOME!!!
- cheap printing
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  yeh totally awesome buttons and icons, love the twitter one looks great on my site.
Garcya
September 16th
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Great list!
Thanks
TalkVietnam
September 16th
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Nice post. Thank you.
alan
September 16th
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are there no nice common MIME-type icons anywhere on the web? i.e. doc/pdf/jpg/xls/ etc?
Jinfay
September 16th
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Cool. My ignorance – What software do you create these icons with? Thx
Aziz Light
September 16th
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Usually I really don’t like roundups and list posts (even when there are free stuff), but this post is really really cool.

There are a lot of nice icons that I would have never found otherwise (because I don’t search for icons).

I especially liked the Rails folder icons, they’re really awesome!

Thanks a lot for this post !
Plugo.cz
September 17th
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Other great social bookmark icons: (3 sets)

http://www.profimagazin.cz/ikony
Webdesigner
September 17th
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Wow, great list. I will use some of the icons for my next project. Thanx for sharing!
theComplex
September 17th
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Superb list! Very useful.
Martin Leblanc
September 17th
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Great list!

Here’s 231 icon sets more: http://www.iconfinder.net/browse
Rahul - Web Guru
September 17th
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Bookmarked for my future reference. Thanks.
taufiq
September 17th
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Cool…thanks for this…..will bookmarked nyumy….:)
Lauren
September 18th
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Really good selections. Thanks.
Reaper-Media
September 21st
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Awesome set of icons!!!
Ugur Eskici
October 2nd
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Excellent work, thanks for sharing
Sedat Kumcu
October 13th
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Thanks for this great compilation.
Joerg Versicherungsvergleich
October 22nd
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Thanks for this amazing collection. I just need some icons.
Jon Rawlins
November 24th
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Great sets here, will certainly come in handy for a few training applications I am in the process of creating.
Miguel
December 23rd
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Nice collections, good varaity.
inspirationfeed
March 27th
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Great collection, very nice!
Linds
April 12th
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Thanks heaps, this will be very usefull
goldkoxp
June 3rd
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nice supper post
Anna
July 12th
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Awesome, great, wonderfull! Thank you so much for this awesome compilation!
yaseen
August 1st
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yeh….been looking around and this is a good collection! Great stuff!
JuicyIcons.com
August 12th
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we have over 500 totally free icons sets – something for everyone, and all high resolution / high quality!

Get them here: http://www.JuicyIcons.com

thanks,
Jamie.
free icon sets
October 19th
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Thanks. Really nice icons. I use it at my developments
Cami Halısı
February 22nd
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Thanks for icon sets. Very nice archives.
Eurokoder
April 9th
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Thanks for this set. True is that when u need something i cant find it so – u r add to favourite!
Informator
June 13th
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You have very nice set with icons to use. There is a lot of website, blogs that giving us web icon sets. But here you gave us the best from them (that’s my opinion) who wants agree with me?

thanks man, a please keep up and share with us things like this
Cheap printing
July 2nd
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I really like these icons i will use them in my own site
cami halısı
October 6th
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Those are great icons !
Yeshua
November 29th
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It’s always fun to discover collections of fresh, high quality web design elements, themes, fonts, and photos. Especially when you can really use something that’s included. These collections can even be regularly scheduled posts to keep your readership up with the latest. Thanks for the golden nuggets.
DeAngelo
January 21st
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awesome… just what i needed… im designing a social media site so this collection is a perfect resource for several projects… cheers