70+ Awesome Free Icon Sets Web Designers

Icons are images specifically designed to deliver a message and good Icons are simply awesome to for that purpose.

For that reason at good collection of icons can be really handsome when you’re designing a web site or a blog and can be used ti kick start or support the creative process.

There are thousands of free icon sets available which is very good, but it can be hard to find the Icon Sets suitable for use in web design. One option is to do the creative work yourself and here some icon design tutorials can help you get started.

If you like icons, and find yourself using them a lot, make sure to check out the thousands of fully-licensed premium examples found over at Envato Market.

This article gives you one of the largest compilations of free icon resources and icon sets aimed for use in web design. Please let me know if any Resources or Icon packs that should have been included are missing. Always make sure you read the license before using any Icons as this may change rapidly.

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Social Icons hand drawned

Social Media Bookmark Icon

AllGN Robots Icons

Vintage Social Media Stamps

Stack site icons

MICRO + NickelCobalt

32px mania iconset

Summer beach and seaworld set

iconSweets

Liquisoft Icons

Web Injection

Aa Free Icon Set for webmasters and web developers provided by tutorial9.net. The Icon Set has been created by Midtone Design Studio The set includes 26 free icons at 48×48px size and in a Png format. This Free Icon Set is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution.

gCons

ecqlipse 2

This packet contains 105 system replacement and 137 application icons. Size is 128 x 128 px.

Retro Icon Set

Token

-90+ 32×32 .ico files for use with Vista and Windows 7 -90+ 128×128 .png files for use with any ‘dock’ applications + White Versions of the above!

Mini Icons

MannMitDerTarnjacke

Icon Set contains 27 .png dock icons and 25 .ico files.

Lucid: Icons

Contains over 250 .png dock icons in both black and white (+500 total!) of widely used applications, games, and system icons. PSD included

3D Cartoon Icons Pack III

This pack has 205 icons with 3D effect.

Pinvoke

Fugue Icons: 2,225 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel). Diagona Icons: 400 icons are included in PNG format (10×10 and 16×16 pixel).

Pace Icon Set

BacktoPixel

Icojoy team presents new free icon set in pixel style. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Free web development icons #3

The subjects of this set are blogs, dating, player, social networks. These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Free web development icons #2

These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Free web development icons #1

These icons are free to use in any kind of project unlimited times.

Sweetie

Sweetie BasePack (182 icons) Sweetie WebCommunication (37 icons)

Fam Fam Fam

4 free sets of mini size but good quality icons

Simplicio

The set contains 78 free icons in .png and .ico including AI which can be useful for both corporate and personal setting.

BS-Markup

Sanscons Icon Set

bwpx Icons

Vector Icon Set

“sketch’d up!” Icon Set

Facebook UI Icon Set

the facebook ui icons in a high res and vector form… with slight adherences to the tango specification

Liquidicity Icon Set

165 vector icons x 5 colours = 825 icons.

Web Application Icons

Web-Icons-Pack

Ganato – Psd Icons

Web2.0 Icons Pack

Mobile Icon Set

Aroma

The Webdesigner Sketchup Icons ‘

WooFunction Icons

Webcons

Proxal Icon Set v2

Hand-Drawn Icons

Portal Icons

Soft Media Icons Vol. 1

Soft Media Icons Vol. 2

Templatic Ecommerce Glyphs

The Aristocracy Free Web Icon Set

Dropbox Aquaized

Quartz

Glyphious

Addictive Flavour

Payment Method Icons

Credit Card Icons

Payment Icon Set

MimiGlyphs

Xiao Icon

Trainee Icon Set

E-Commerce Icon Set

E-Commerce Glossy

Shopping Icons

E-Commerce Icons

August Interactive Vector Icons

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Lars

Lars started tripwire magazine back in January 2009. He is really passionate about web design, web development and loves to look into new technologies, techniques, tools etc. and to write articles for his readers.