Wednesday, July 13, 2011

40 FREE AND USEFUL GUI ICON SETS FOR WEB DESIGNERS

free gui icons


Icons are everywhere in a website and their primary purpose of guiding and giving out information to visitors is a highly important one. Other than words themselves, these little graphics within a website that tells you how you can move to the next page, cancel a transaction, checkout the cart and the likes,basically the entire navigation. In a general sense, they act as symbols that allow easier and smoother communication between the webpage and the person interacting with it.

Depending on the web context, icons should be designed in a manner that are pleasing to the eyes, and most importantly, communicate what it is suppose to communicate. Here’s a showcase of 40 Free and Useful Icon Sets for your reference. Full list after jump.

Function Icon Set
128 Icons, they are only available in 48×48px. [via
wefunction | Download]

Onebit Free Icon Set
A total of 50 icons. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times .[via
Icojoy |Download]

Onebit Free Icon Set 2
Total of 30 icons, 48×48 in PNG format. [via
Icojoy | Download]

WP WooThemes Ultimate Icon Set
The free download contains all 79 icons, sized at 256×256 pixels and available in both PNG and GIF formats. [via
WooThemes | Download]

SEM Labs Web Blog Icon Pack
48x 48 icons for use on the front and back-end of the site released under the Creative Commons License. [via
semlabs | Download]

Bright!
This 148-icon set contains all crisp-shaped icons that are designed for wide use in web applications, multimedia and software.[via
iconeden | Download]

Milky
The Milky set contains more than 131 icons primarily colored in green, giving an eye-pleasant look and prominent display on either dark or bright backgrounds. [via
iconeden | Download]

Iconza Icons
Collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. [via
Iconza| Download]


Basic Set
42 high quality icons for your web application, software or GUI design. Comes in various sizes of 64×64, 48×48, 32×32 & 16×16. [via
prokofusha | Download]

MinIcons [via kyo-tux | Download]

Coquette Icons Set
Free icon set contains 50 high quality, free icons in these sizes: 16×16px, 32×32px, 48×48px, 64×64px and 128×128px and 32-bit transparency PNG file format. [via
dryicons | Download]

Coquette Icons Set 2
Improved version of one of DryIcons’ most downloaded and most popular free icons sets. [via
dryicons |Download]


Developers Icons
105 icons (32×32) for your toolbar or anything. Comes in .png, .ICO, .ICNS, .iContainer. [via
Sekkyumu |Download]


Circular Icons A themed collection of 100+ 16×16 icons designed by Ben Gillbank, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License. [via Pro Theme Design | Download]

Web Application Icons Set
20 icons designed specially for web applications, Free Web Application Icons Set is completely Free for both personal and commercial projects in any way you like. [via
Webappers | Download]

Mini And Pixel Icons

If large and silky smooth icons aren’t the style you are looking for, how about simple, mini and pixelated one. Such icons can save significant amount of space for your website. Did we also mention their are light in filesize too?

Twotiny- Two icons setsfor websites and web applications. [Download]


Twotiny Expansion Set [Download]

Tango Icon Library
The Tango icon library contains a basic set of icons for the most common usage. To make it easier for a developer to find an appropriate icon for their application a number of aids are there to help. [via
Tango |Download]


512 Pixel LED Icon Set
Designed for web designers/developers by
Marcis Gasuns. [via Led24 | Download]

Iconjoy Free Web Development Icons- These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Set #1 [Download]

Set #4 [Download]

Greyscale
40 greyscale icons which each fit into a 34 x 34 pixel area. [via
e-lusion | Download]

greyscale

FamFamFam Icons
Silk [Download]

Mini
"Mini" is a set of 144 GIF icons available for free use for any purpose. [Download]

famfamfam mini

Flags
247 icons in GIF and PNG formats representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons.
[Download]

famfamfam flags

Splashy Icons
470 splashy icons. [
Download]

Bitcons
Mini-pixel icon set (16×16 pixels) containing 91 121 individual icons for various subjects. [via
somerandomdude | Download]

Bullet Madness
A list of 200 bullets, arrows and icons uploaded by
stylegala users.

bulletmadness

Minimalist Pixel Icon Set
[via
nclud | Download]

nclud

Fugue
2,225 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel). [via
pinvoke | Download]

fugue

Sizcons
Comes in 2 different format: 16×16 version and a 12×12 version. [via
randomjabber | Download]

sizecons

Social Media Icon Pack
This icon set consists of 30 (16×16) finely crafted social media icons. They are free to use non-commercially. [via
Komodo Media | Download]

komodo

Sweetie
2 sets of cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application, respectively Sweetie BasePack and Sweetie WebCommunication. [via
sublink]

sweetie

Vaga
60, semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) ready to use and available for free download. [via
tenbytwenty | Download]

vaga


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