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10 Great Free Icon Packs for Your Website or Web App

by Dmitry Fadeyev

silk icon set

Icons are an important aspect of a web application or even just a website — they add visual cues to different headings, buttons and sections of the site, making it easy to recognize what each element is and help users make quicker decisions. They also look great and add a professional polish to your app.

These days there are many great icon packs available for free. Here's my selection of the top 10 free icon packs:

Silk Icons

This is a fantastic icon set that is very popular throughout many web apps and websites. There are over 700 icons in this pack, which cover pretty much anything you would need, from error signs, hard drives, alarms, calendars, disks, app icons, text editing symbols, RSS feeds, etc etc. — this pack really covers it all. Highly recommended. Download here.

silk icon set

yellowicon Crystal Set

A very nice icon set that's released for Linux usage, but is very well suited for web apps and websites as well. 1500 Icons in this pack in total (in various sizes). Download here.

crystal icon set

WebAppers Web Application Icon Set

This is a nice set for web applications or websites, featuring 20 glossy 3D icons. Download here.

webappers icon set

Diagona Icons

This is a fantastic set of small icons, ideal for use as little header icons or for buttons/tabs in web applications. 400 icons in total (200 in 10x10 pixels size and a further 200 in 16x16). This pack is similar to the Fugue and Silk sets, and is of very high quality. Download here.

diagona icon set

Simplistica Icons

25 clean and sharp icons. Nice folders, envelopes and calendar pages especially. Download here.

simplistica icon set

Monofactor Vector Icon Set 1

25 icons in scalable Illustrator format, meaning you can make them any size you need to and they won't lose quality. Not a very extensive pack but the quality is good. Download here.

monofactor icon set

iTweek's Knob Buttons Toolbar icons

A small icon set by iTweek on Deviantart. They look like little knobs and feature several colors depending on the action they symbolize. Download here.

knobs icon set

iVista Icon Pack 2

Vista style icons that are sharp and come in a large 256x256 pixel size. 92 icons in total, covering things like networks, devices and documents. While aimed at the operating system, the pack has plenty of icons that are suited well as illustrations on websites. Download here.

ivista2 icon set

Feedicons 2

Need some good RSS icons? Here you go. Plenty of variations here, from your standard RSS square, to RSS speech bubbles, RSS documents and folders. Download here.

feedicons icon set

Fugue Icons

The Fugue pack is from the same designer (Yusuke Kamiyamane) as the Diagona pack. These icons are really fantastic, I can't recommend them enough. 788 in total (16x16 pixel size), which covers pretty much every action and button your web app or website will need. Get them now. Download here.

fugue icon set

I hope you find these resources useful. Do you have or know of a great free icon pack? Share it with us in the comments below.

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14 Comments:

Javier 28 Jul 13:22	Great collection thanks from spain!

Dmitry 28 Jul 15:43	No problem Javier, I'm glad you find this list useful — there's a lot of gems in there, I use the Silk pack on this very site actually.

Alex 29 Jul 05:02	I see you're site is brand spankin new. It's quite eye pleasing. Keep it up!

Binny V A 29 Jul 08:05	You can use the Icon sets for KDE and Gnome - http://www.bin-co.com/blog/200 7/12/a-secret-source-for-great-free-icons-for -your-desktop-and-web-apps/ - as well - they have some great icons. Also, they are under a free license - so you don't have to worry about royalty.

md sumon 29 Jul 08:44	hello

BeyondRandom 29 Jul 12:05	Alex is right, your site is very clean cut and nice to the eyes! Will bookmark ya and keep up! Best of luck! oh..and I like your "Tweet" bird lol should be cool when you get it up and working

Dmitry 29 Jul 14:26	Thanks for the positive feedback Alex and BeyondRnandom. The site has indeed just launched — I'm still making tweaks and updating the code behind the scenes ;) Writing the next article already though and will try to keep a regular posting schedule here. Thanks for the link Binny V A — those icons look good. P.S. Twitter bird should be working... looks like Twitter is having some issues on their side again.

BeyondRandom 29 Jul 16:33	Oh yea its working now! Looks nice bro

Alex 29 Jul 20:47	Hey Dmitry- you're going to have a ton of problems with twitter (they can't handle the load most of the time). Do you use their default badge? I had a big problem with it hanging my site. If you click my name you can see how i got around it with a little javascript (its in the code).

Dmitry 29 Jul 22:52	Hi Alex, I am indeed using their default method. I placed their javascript right before the body close tag so even if Twitter goes down the page at least loads everything else on it — though it does hang on the "loading page" indicator when their server doesn't respond, so it's not ideal. You say the javascript you use won't hang the page? If so I shall have to try it out — thanks a lot for the link.

Shristi 04 Aug 02:48	thanks for this article. these icon sets are really awesome.

Sangesh 04 Aug 02:51	Firstly, congrats on making on delicious.com Your icons are great. Thank you for sharing this great icons.

Bramme 20 Aug 21:50	Can't believe you didn't mention Fam Fam Fam! None the less, a very nice list.

Dmitry 22 Aug 22:23	Bramme: I did mention Fam Fam Fam :) That's the very first pack in the list (Silk)

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