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]
Icons
A free set of over 250 18×18 pixel icons. Each icon was carefully created one pixel at a time using only whole value hexadecimal shades of grey. [via Paul Armstrong | 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]
Mini Icons 2
113 10×10 greyscale icons in .gif format. [via brandspankingnew | Download]
Mini Pixel Icons
320 icons (available in various color theme) for general web design such as: blog themes, forums, eCommerce sites, and CMS application. [via Icondock | Download]
Web Social Icons
30 free web social icons, great for your website and blog. [via seanau | Download]
Microformats
These icons can be used to depict various microformats in webpages or on the desktop.
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.
Greyscale
40 greyscale icons which each fit into a 34 x 34 pixel area. [via e-lusion | Download]
FamFamFam Icons
Silk [Download]
Mini
"Mini" is a set of 144 GIF icons available for free use for any purpose. [Download]
Flags
247 icons in GIF and PNG formats representing most countries in the world as small pixel icons. [Download]
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.
Minimalist Pixel Icon Set
[via nclud | Download]
Fugue
2,225 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel). [via pinvoke | Download]
Sizcons
Comes in 2 different format: 16×16 version and a 12×12 version. [via randomjabber | Download]
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]
Sweetie
2 sets of cute and clear icons to use in your nifty web application, respectively Sweetie BasePack and Sweetie WebCommunication. [via sublink]
Vaga
60, semi-transparent .png icons (16 x 16) ready to use and available for free download. [via tenbytwenty | Download]
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Comments
Arpad Bajzath July 28th, 2009
Wow. Nice pack of icons :) Thanks!
ReplyNot Nobody July 29th, 2009
I was surprised to find some new ones on here. I thought I had exhausted the web’s supply. Thanks.
ReplyWallpapers July 29th, 2009
Thanks for sharing with web developers ~!
ReplyMarilyn July 29th, 2009
Wow, so many great choices! Thanks for compiling these. I’ve bookmarked it for later use.
ReplyMuhammad Faisal Jawaid Attari July 29th, 2009
Awesome!
Replyreally cool compilation.. thanks for share.
Johnny Mack July 29th, 2009
Wow, those are some really cool icon sets dude!
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Dave July 29th, 2009
Thanks for sharing man! This is a great set of icons, kudos to you for compiling it all!
ReplyJohn Smith July 29th, 2009
Nice fake comments, dude!
ReplyAndy Gongea July 29th, 2009
How about my Quartz Icon Pack? – http://www.graphicrating.com/2009/06/19/quartz-icon-pack/
Cheers.
ReplyJohn Smith July 29th, 2009
22+ ads on one page, very impressive.
ReplyiconPot July 29th, 2009
nice list.
if you are interested in more icons please have a look at iconPot. it has 3000+ icons all free for personal and commercial use.
ReplySamuel Garneau July 29th, 2009
Wouhou ! That’s was exactly what I was looking for about an hour ago :) Thanks.
ReplyJohnson Koh July 29th, 2009
Have not seen several of them before. A very good reference for my web projects. Bookmarked!
Replysuperdit July 29th, 2009
Whoooaaa theres tango icon, its on my linux too
ReplyPoplo July 29th, 2009
cool list, i added it for my library design, many thanks!
Replymiziology July 29th, 2009
this is what im looking for..thanks
ReplyManoj Shekhawat July 29th, 2009
Very Nice collection of icons
Thanks for sharing :)
ReplyNick July 29th, 2009
Downloaded all the files and put them into an archive.
Replyhttp://rapidshare.com/files/261359893/icons.rar
iPhone4ever.eu July 29th, 2009
Thanks for sharing! Good as always
Replyicon guy July 29th, 2009
Wow! great collection
ReplyMaverick July 29th, 2009
awesome list
thanks a lot for that
ReplyMatt July 29th, 2009
great collection of icons
ReplyDinesh July 29th, 2009
Thansk For Sharing, keep postinh things like this.
ReplyMin Thu July 30th, 2009
Thanks for the list. All great icons!
Replyrafi July 30th, 2009
Hey dude, these are really useful and let me download these now. Thanks for sharing.
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Thanks
ReplyAlienTYC July 30th, 2009
very useful icons. Grateful for it!
ReplyMyPSDStudio July 30th, 2009
thanks for sharing this..it’s so helpful
ReplyPelFusion July 30th, 2009
great…no need to search for icons anywhere else :)
ReplyPhantom July 31st, 2009
i love it
ReplyDaniel Racca July 31st, 2009
Amazing post! =)
ReplyVim July 31st, 2009
awesome collection, these sets of icons are all that users will need!
ReplySam July 31st, 2009
Bookmarked! Thank you so much for this, it is going to save me a lot of time in future projects.
ReplyUmang August 1st, 2009
As appreciative as I am to see this entire list collated into one spot, at least have the courtesy not to hotlink to the dowloads and direct them to their pages. The authors worked hard on their icons, let them have visitors to their site at the very least.
ReplyRahul August 1st, 2009
Impressive collection. A must have collection for web developers.
ReplyLetter Format August 1st, 2009
Nice collection. I agree that the icon look and feel was important for a website.
Replyshani August 1st, 2009
its so nice collection i like it this
Replyshumail August 1st, 2009
Wow: amaizing nice collections
Replyrobb August 1st, 2009
great collection.
Replyi’m downloading now.
townguyz August 2nd, 2009
i did one of my feed using icons here, one stop center
ReplyEleonora August 2nd, 2009
Vraiment très bien, bravo pour cette trouvaille !!!!
ReplyKaplang August 2nd, 2009
really nice, thanks :)
Replyfashionable August 3rd, 2009
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iPhone4ever.eu August 3rd, 2009
Here are more than 100.000 free icons!!
Replyhttp://www.iconfinder.net/ultimate#
Arsart August 4th, 2009
Shared on http://designcollector.net/3165 also check out Joseph Wain free iPhone icons at http://glyphish.com/ – AMAZING!
ReplyJonathan Patterson August 4th, 2009
Sweetness!
ReplyImad Qtishat August 4th, 2009
http://www.qtishat.com is the only palce where you can get GRAPHICS, CARTOON & PHOTOSHOP DESIGNS done by PROFESSIONALS.
ReplyiValueNews | Lee August 7th, 2009
Really useful icon sets for me. It saves me lots of time from searching from internet. Thank you for sharing.
ReplyJose Carlos Lizana August 9th, 2009
Great work, it is one gallery icon very big and modern. I hope use this img in the future. Thanks, bye!
Replyginwe August 9th, 2009
Nice collection icons set, it will useful to our local web design company Malaysia, Malaysia BOLEH!! Thanks Hong Kiat !!
ReplyDevz August 10th, 2009
awesome collection..
ReplyThanks a lot [:)]
Icon Fish August 10th, 2009
Great compilation thanks for sharing!
Reply_mark August 13th, 2009
Great Collection. Thx
Replygabriel August 14th, 2009
exelent, thanks for this, great collection.
ReplyMJ Stapleford Corporate Identity August 21st, 2009
This are all really good but my favorite I think is the Coquette icon sets. thank you for sharing.
Replydanial August 22nd, 2009
more here: http://www.rizwanashraf.com/2009/08/21/40-really-nice-free-icon-sets-for-designers/
ReplyTrendy Wordpress Themes August 25th, 2009
Thanks for the resources!
ReplyComet August 31st, 2009
Very useful. I think I would use some of these on my websites.
ReplyII September 2nd, 2009
Great!!Thanks.
Replyimroz September 2nd, 2009
great list indeed
ReplyDB-Elements September 7th, 2009
Excellent list! Thanks for posting.
Replydamien September 19th, 2009
The LED-512 website seems to have been replaced by another site. Does anyone have a url for this iconset? I’m going to download it this time!
Damien
Replysaurabh shah September 23rd, 2009
wow ! damn good icon packets … thanks 4 sharing it
ReplyAXIZ eBusiness September 29th, 2009
Thanks, I shared it on our website :
http://telecharger.axiz.fr/utilitaires-logiciels-gratuits.html
where I’ve also put web designers ressources like free banner maker, free site builder, open source solutions…
Rouhina
ReplyClippingimages October 8th, 2009
Incredible collection. Will be helpful in every sphere of design :)
Replydesktop icons October 10th, 2009
I bookmerk it too.
Replythank you
Patrickv October 11th, 2009
very nice collection, would be very useful
Replystrony internetowe October 15th, 2009
Wow. Nice pack of icons :) Thanks!
ReplyKelvin54 October 23rd, 2009
Why would you want anyone to pretend otherwise? ,
ReplyMarc Whitbread October 25th, 2009
There are some free icons here too: 25icons.com.
Replyanonym November 2nd, 2009
great share! thanks a lot (^__^)
ReplyAjay singh November 3rd, 2009
Nice icons…really…thanks a lot……..
Replydee November 14th, 2009
中国人到此一游
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