Icon Collections

40 free and useful icon sets

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.

50 Free Twitter and Social Icon sets

This article is created for every Twitter addict, who enjoys to tweet, wants to be noticed – such beautiful Twitter icons are very eye-catchy, standing out from the crowd. No matter what you are blogger, web designer, graphic designer, you cannot ignore Twitter trend. I believe this is the most complete Twitter icon list for now, I tried to get all freebies and shares available and feature them here, so You can get everything in one place

http://www.1stwebdesigner.com/resources/50-free-social-twitter-resources-and-icon-sets/

Social Network Icons Set

Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I’ve developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They’re all the rage with you crazy newsk00l intarweb kids. Use them on your blogs. Put them on t-shirts, coffee mugs, your face-space or whatevs.

All the small icons you could need

small icons can be very useful when designing websites. They are great for styling lists and giving links visual flair that is eye catching and meaningful. It’s amazing what can be said visually in a 16 x 16 pixel area. In this post, you will find a large collection of small icons that should fit most of your design needs

50 Fresh Icons Sets

This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications

Paper Icons

is a set of four professional paper icons, each 48px high by 48px wide. All of the icons are transparency supported png files (Portable Network Graphics). These icons are perfect to represent blank documents, unknown file types or a download icon.

RSS Icons

Honkiat brings us 40+ cool RSS Feed icons.
To find more cool RSS icons, we re-crawled the Internet. We’ve even looked into free icon package so we don’t missed any cool RSS icons.

22 Extremely Detailed and Beautiful Icons

Icons come in many different sizes and styles. Some are flat and solid colors, while others can be very detailed. Icons in web design are often used to enhance content and navigation, but the ones in this post are so detailed that they could easily stand alone as beautiful works of art.

Icon Tutorials

40 Tutorials for Creating Highly Detailed Icons

As icons appear in larger sizes through appearances in Mac applications and rich user interfaces the icon designs themselves are becoming more and more detailed. Check out this collection of 40 of the best icon design tutorials from across the web, each covering the process of designing a highly detailed icon graphic in Illustrator or Photoshop

25 Icon Design Tutorials

With icons, web designers and graphic artists have a good opportunity to showcase their skills, prove their experience and explore their creativity. A well created, good looking icon set is a great way for designers to showcase their work and it may be a way to build up some reputation in the online sommunity. Creating professional Icons and allowing people to download them for free is a certain way to attract attention and visitors on a design portfolio or blog. But how how should you get started with creating icons that rock and stand out from the endless masses? This article provides a large collection of tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator that currently is the de facto standard tools for this purpose. The article also provides links to some very interesting and worth reading articles on icon design

Icon Web Sites

DryIcons.com

some great free icons sets delivered through a blog. All free - just need a backlink.

IconPot

We list a whole bunch of icons which are all great to use for your web development projects. But we are different to other icon-related websites because we only list icons which you can use for free on personal AND commercial projects AND without having to provide back-links/credit to the author. These types of icons can be tough to find, so here is a while list for your convenience!

Icon Tools

iConvert

is a web-based application for converting icons from the format of one operating system into another and from image files into new icons.