40 Beautiful Free Icon Sets
Some of the best things in life are free. When it comes to icons and icon sets, there are many talented designers and artists that choose to provide beautiful and useful icon sets for commercial and/or personal usage.
In this collection, you’ll see 40 beautiful, free icon sets that you can use in a variety of ways (websites and/or your desktop). In total, you’ll find close to 3000 invidual icons showcased in this article.
Note: It’s important to read the fine-print before using any icon sets; some may have restrictions for commercial use (or require that you give credit to the designer).
Yoritsuki icons
35 icons – Download (PNG and ICO)
Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set
14 icons - Download (PNG and JPG)
rounder_png
43 icons – Download (PNG)
eico 1 year
17 icons – Download (PNG, ICO, and ICNS)
Wifun Icons
6 icons - Download (PNG and ICO)
3D Cartoon Icons Pack
111 icons – Download (PNG, ICO, and ICNS)
3D Cartoon Icons Pack III
205 icons – Download (PNG, ICO, and ICNS)
De Freu
41 icons – Download (PNG)
Practika
11 icons - Download (PNG)
Dellipack 2
15 icons - Download (PNG)
Finance and Applications
29 icons –Download 1 (PNG and ICO) | Download 2 (EPS vectors)
Heart
22 icons –Download (PNG)
The Leaves Fall
11 icons -Download (PNG and PSD)
Icon Set
27 icons – Download (PNG and ICO)
DeskMundo Live Icons
8 icons – Download (PNG)
FRESH Add-on
59 icons - Download (PNG, TIFF, ICN, ICO)
Milky
131 icons – Download (PNG)
Bright!
148 icons – Download
Sweetie
182 icons - Download (PNG and PSD)
Social Web Buttons
20 icons – Download (PNG)
Social Bookmark Iconset
12 icons - Download (PNG)
ecqlipse 2
123 icons – Download (PNG)
HydroPRO
23 icons – Download (PNG)
Circular Icons
100+ icons - Download (PNG)
Shopping Cart Icon
1 icon – Download (PNG)
Paper Clip
1 icon – Download (PNG)
iConPack
18 icons – Download (PNG)
V!Va Icons
9 icons – Download (PNG)
Scrap Icons
18 icons – Download (PNG)
Blueset icons
8 icons – Download (PNG)
UMI Icons
10 icons – Download (PNG)
Black Neon Agua
270+ icons – Download (various formats)
openPhone Icon Pack
12 icons – Download (PNG and ICO)
Free RSS Feed Icons
6 icons – Download (PNG)
Feedicons2
33 icons - Download (PNG)
credit cards pixel icon
5 icons - Download (PNG)
Function Icon Set
128 icons – Download (PNG)
Mini Pixel Icons
320 icons – Download (GIF)
Silk Icons
700 icons – Download (PNG)
Web Application Icons Set
20 icons – Download (PNG)
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215 Comments
Patareco
November 2nd, 2008
Nice mashup once again! Some will be very handy!
Peace
Danh ba web 2.0
November 3rd, 2008
Great Icons for me. Thanks you very much
Keep up the good work !
Chris R.
November 3rd, 2008
Awsome collection! Thanks alot
koellmania
November 3rd, 2008
nice start in this week, yeah thanks!
Chary
November 3rd, 2008
Wow wonderful collection!!!
Quite useful icons, Really amazed by seeing them all in single page…
Keep it up!!
Wouter Van den Neste
November 3rd, 2008
Real nice icon sets! Keep up the good work!
Rishi
November 3rd, 2008
Great collection, will be using some of these…Thanks
bristow47
November 3rd, 2008
Awesome stuff, thanks very much for sharing!
David
November 3rd, 2008
Great !…this is great!
Donna Payne
November 3rd, 2008
What an extensive resource! Thanks six revisions!
Craig Farrall
November 3rd, 2008
Nice list of great icons, I do love icons on websites, so this is a good roundup, DUGG!
p@r@noid
November 3rd, 2008
amazing collection..downloading alll of them..!!
thanx..!!
Vivekanand
November 3rd, 2008
This list is awesome enough, actually I am waiting for the same to grab :)
manilenio
November 3rd, 2008
thanks for this very useful post!
arslion
November 3rd, 2008
nice collection
Liezzzje
November 3rd, 2008
Thx a lot for these beautiful Icon Sets! Surely will use some of these ;)
Gav
November 3rd, 2008
AMAZING! What a excellent list
Noura
November 3rd, 2008
It’s great to see the amount of creative effort that goes into the design of icons. The Milky icon set is pretty appealing to me.
australia-iphone-unlocking
November 3rd, 2008
These rock cheers!
burt (italian) simpson
November 3rd, 2008
MIIITICO!!!
Alan Prosser
November 3rd, 2008
Amazing icons, I particularly like the Wifun set. Nice, thanks for the post :-)
reizencroft
November 3rd, 2008
WOW. Nice sets. Thanks a bunch!!
panele
November 3rd, 2008
great - i love it
Dawid
November 3rd, 2008
WOWW… Nice Icons. Thank You!
Kristina
November 3rd, 2008
Thanks for this great icons , especially like
“The Leaves Fall” ;))))
Hisham
November 3rd, 2008
This is great collection, very good.. and thanks for sharing!
auntiejep
November 3rd, 2008
very cool site - thanks for the lead!
stelt
November 3rd, 2008
Can i have them in SVG format please ?
Matthew Ray
November 3rd, 2008
Sexy sets! Thanks!
ayampanggang
November 3rd, 2008
really cool icons, thanks for compiling them! :D
liam
November 3rd, 2008
Didn’t realize there was so many new sets I’ve missed. Thanks for the mention of function set. Appreciate it.
giuseppe
November 3rd, 2008
how can i load the icons in .png format???
insic
November 3rd, 2008
I Like them all. thanks for posting
Umoor
November 3rd, 2008
Great selection! Thanks for the sharing!
Timothy
November 3rd, 2008
Good stuff.
Thanks!
Derek
November 3rd, 2008
can someone tell me how to use these? thank you so much.
Bored
November 3rd, 2008
these are awesome. i love that sweetie set and the other sets by that same guy
David Bradley
November 3rd, 2008
The hand-drawn doodle icons are just soooooo cool. As are the crumpled stickers.
ApV
November 3rd, 2008
great collection, very helpful. Thanks
Shanna
November 3rd, 2008
Lots of forbidden links and suspended accounts. Might want to look into that.
baobaz
November 3rd, 2008
wow.. these icons very awesome.
Thank u.
Yong
November 3rd, 2008
wonderful, useful, beautiful.
Praveen
November 3rd, 2008
Great job. Nice to see everything on one page.
Stu McLaren
November 3rd, 2008
This is a wicked collection - thanks for sharing. There are so many ways to use icons and downloading these is so much faster than creating my own.
Cheers!
Income Tax India
November 3rd, 2008
This is great, Thanks !!
Jim Lally
November 3rd, 2008
Is that it?
Where are the rest of them?
bangbouh stock
November 3rd, 2008
Great icon resource. Thanks!
ntopics
November 3rd, 2008
Wow these are great!
Its cool to make the
screen look attractive
and colorful with
new icons.
thanks from tony
tormento19
November 3rd, 2008
But how can I set an Icon on Win!?
Res Tanch
November 3rd, 2008
Man, these are really nice, thanks. Dugg!
Icon people
November 3rd, 2008
I dont use icons, i hide them
CD
November 3rd, 2008
One I like a lot and use often and think you missed:
http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
Daniel
November 3rd, 2008
Thanks! This is a great collection!
Bionanotechnology
November 3rd, 2008
Absolutely wonderful! Thanks very much for these icons! I’ve been looking around to find something like this… and here they are - all in one place! You rock!
Dainis Graveris
November 3rd, 2008
oh amazing icon roundup - lovely, bookmarking this one!
WIlson Oliveira
November 3rd, 2008
Awesome and handy. Thanks. The milky icon set is down though. Can someone share it?
moldova
November 3rd, 2008
Very nice packs! thanx a lot
Cristian
November 3rd, 2008
Excelente, buena seleccion
Doctor PC
November 3rd, 2008
Thanks!
I’ll take some of them :D
mrgtb
November 3rd, 2008
very nice, always amazes me the quality of some icons out there. How do they produce such quality.
irene
November 3rd, 2008
how do i put them on desktop???
Tom Ross
November 3rd, 2008
Great list! I’m a bit gutted that I released my own icon set after this post was made though… (http://psdfan.com/freebies/hand-drawn-blogging-icon-set/)
Grayson
November 3rd, 2008
I’m a bit surprised Louie Mantia didn’t make this list! Check out his icons here: http://louiemantia.com/icons.htm
Very clean, refined style, I like his work a lot.
Farshid
November 4th, 2008
Wow! I love them all. Thanks.
QR
November 4th, 2008
can i put these icons on my websites?
hope there’s no copyright infringement involved
silvio farias
November 4th, 2008
buenisimo gracias
Arjen
November 4th, 2008
Thanks for sharing this! Absolutely amazing collection of icon´s you´ve got here!
Sunil Gupta
November 4th, 2008
Those are awesome and will be very useful dude.
Thanks a lot!
Michael “The Copy Polisher” Millman
November 4th, 2008
What a great collection. I was referred over by @PerryBelcher via Twitter.
Thanks so much for all the work it must have taken to gather these up and assemble this page.
Much appreciated!
@MichaelMillman ~ Twitter
alejandro kuri pheres
November 4th, 2008
Thank you artists.
Andrea
November 4th, 2008
Thank you very much !
Evan L
November 4th, 2008
Nice! Thanks for sharing! Dugg.
pos
November 5th, 2008
Wow, definitely bookmarked. Thank you.
Chenlaing
November 5th, 2008
wonderful collection!!!
agus
November 5th, 2008
nice collection. thanks
Aggy
November 5th, 2008
thanks a lot! Great collection
Georjina
November 5th, 2008
Perfect! I needed a bit of eye candy for my blogs and these will fit the bill nicely.
Thank you
Rachel
November 6th, 2008
I can’t believe that these icons are free…they are gorgeous. Thanks for taking the time to round these up and post them. :)
Rachel
AllGraphicDesign.com
biyified
November 7th, 2008
superb just cant get enough of this icon.. They work like magic. In designing
Paula Tejando
November 7th, 2008
F A N T A S T I C !!!
Dwight Zahringer
November 7th, 2008
These are great icon sets - thanks for posting them!
janet mestas
November 7th, 2008
very beautiful icons
Affordable Web Design
November 7th, 2008
great collection thanks alot
Michi
November 8th, 2008
Wow, wonderful sets. Thanks!
shashi
November 8th, 2008
nice collection..
http://www.freebiesup.com
Diego Herrera
November 8th, 2008
Really nice set, wil be using these I think,
Diego
http://www.corporatewebsolutions.net
szuman
November 9th, 2008
nice icons. Thanks
brenth
November 9th, 2008
Very nice collection.
Will surely download some for my desktop
Guy
November 10th, 2008
Might want to check this copyright infringer. They’ve published this article in it’s entirety. Seems they’re publishing a lot of other people’s articles without permission, including images.
windy
November 10th, 2008
thank U!!
Mik
November 10th, 2008
Some cool items there, definitely usable.
E-maniacs
November 11th, 2008
Huge collection
rejidesigner
November 12th, 2008
Cool collections!
Bhusan Shrestha
November 14th, 2008
Nice ‘n’ Awesome Collection Thanx
Kevin
November 14th, 2008
absolutely nice collection..
Mach
November 15th, 2008
Awesome Collection. Great Work.
Sangesh
November 15th, 2008
Thanks, these are great icons for all. Thanks you very much
IT Freak
November 15th, 2008
Thanks a ton for this cool collections!
You rock man.
Aaron
November 16th, 2008
thanks for the valuable icons information about these applications over the Internet to very useful I find it truly amazing piece types of artwork is forms application over the Internet to help build a steady down line of followers.
As a licensed professional massage therapist I to use these website
Kier
November 16th, 2008
These are great! Thanks a lot.
Nokia Photos
November 17th, 2008
Excellent collection, mate! Well done!
iLL
November 17th, 2008
One of the best things ever invented… nice and thanks!
Dwayne from Probably Sucks Blog
November 17th, 2008
Wow. Absolutely speechless. What an excellent hoard of icons.
Dwayne.
http://probablysucks.com
siteniz
November 18th, 2008
Very nice collection.
Bokolo
November 19th, 2008
Like 3D Cartoon Icons…
Harshit Shah
November 20th, 2008
Thanks. This is really very good list.
kusu
November 20th, 2008
super coool!!
Dreams
November 21st, 2008
Nice set of icons.
Ahmad Abozaid
November 22nd, 2008
WOW! that is really enlightening!
Graphic Tee
November 22nd, 2008
what!? these icons are amazing, Why didnt i find this way earlier??
kiran
November 24th, 2008
Wonderful collection.Thanks!
AnbroK
November 26th, 2008
Very nice collection!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SallyJo Friess
November 26th, 2008
I could not down load a lot of them, it would say you have reached your bandwidths
SallyJo
November 26th, 2008
thank you for the ones I could down load, have a great one
Phao Loo
December 1st, 2008
cute icon sets. I like because Hand Drawn Doodle Icon Set because it is absolutely eye-catch with hand drawing.
George
December 2nd, 2008
Thank you!
projectgrfix
December 3rd, 2008
very nice looking icons! Thanks
Michele
December 13th, 2008
Wow, what a nice refreshing sight to see. I’m always looking for new ways to make a statement when I’m designing … whether for business or personal use. These without a doubt will be more than useful … they are inspiring. I may even decide to make a few sets that feature them just for the fun of it. Like I said they do inspire me. Keep up the great work on this site because it is one that I tend to visit often.
patembe
December 20th, 2008
Wew, what a great icons!
Thanks. :D
kevin
December 24th, 2008
Good friends I hope are well… I am something new in this and wanted to know since I make him to install these packages of so good icons?
Sandeep
December 29th, 2008
Amazing!! Thanks
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