100+ High Quality Hand-picked Icon Sets

by Lars on March 23, 2009

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In this article tripwire magazine provides a collection of more than 100 High Quality Hand-picked Icon Sets that you can use in your designs. The article has been organized into 16 sections giving you instant access to the Icon Sets you need. The power of really good Icons can’t be underestimated as they, if used wisely, will serve as accelerator for creating really beutiful designs quickly!


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Introduction

Icons are all over the place and can be considered as symbols that trigger imaginations or instantly communicate a message to the person looking at it. This is how traffic signs work. In designs the right Icons can be used as building blocks or bricks to build up your artwork. This article gives you access to a large collection of Icons but really this is just a fraction of the massive amount of free and commercial Icons available on the Internet. If you can’t find what you need here I would advice you to look for more resources on the website that are linked in this article.

Index

This article has been organised into the following sections.

Desktop, Folders & Dock Icons

170 dock icons

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WRMZ

WRMZ-for-PC

Icon Set

Icon-Set-58828343

Onibari Leopard Made

Onibari-Leopard-Made


Onibari light

Formats are Png’s,Ico’s and Icns’s…

Onibari-light

Windows Icons V1

Custom Windows XP / Vista Icon pack.

Windows-Icons-V1

ALL ICONS pack “limewire…”

500*500 PIXELS – LEOPARD AND VISTA

ALL-ICONS-pack-quot-limewire

iConPack

iConPack

Pure for Adobe Creative Suite

pure

isabi

Includes icons for most Adobe applications, Microsoft Office 2008 as well as a few extras in 16, 32, 48, 128, 256 and 512 pixel sizes.

isabi

Eternal Black

Eternal Black

Snowe Doc

Snowe-Doc

Aeon

Aeon

HP Dock Icon Set

Light Icons Set. Simple and clean for the websites.

HP-Dock-Icon-Set

Realistic Icons

3 Icons in PNG + ICO format.

realistic

Helix icons

helix

Colorabo

colorabo-png

Oxygen

Are as light and airy as their name suggests. Beautiful transparency effects make these icons stylish, graceful, and especially gorgeous set against a dark background.

Oxygen

Glossy Black ADOBE pngs

GLOSSY-BLACK-ADOBE-PNGS

D-Squared 2008

d-squared-trash

Sleek XP: Software

Sleek-XP-Software

Carbon Gloss

Carbon-Gloss

De Freu. -Icon Pack

De-Freu-Icon-Pack

Aesthetic Groove Icon Suite

Aesthetic-Groove-Icon

AccBox

AccBox

Prostor_icons

Prostor-icons

Puck Icons Pack II

Puck-Icons-Pack-II

“ecqlipse 2? PNG

quot-ecqlipse-2-quot

Adobe CS 2.0 Grande Icon Set

This is the large set of Adobe Creative Suite Icons.

Adobe-CS-2-0-Grande

Serenity Icon Pack set3

This set can be downloaded in four different color themes

Serenity-Icon-Pack-set3

DESIGN for: psdbox.pl

DESIGN-for-psdbox

Green and blue

Green-and-blue

Phuzion

This pack contains 150 icons in total which look best in their original size (256×256px).

phuzion-crystalxp

Serenity Icon Pack

Serenity-Icon-Pack-set1

Charts and Graphs Icons

Colorful Chart Icon

Colorful-Chart-Icon

Office Icons

Notes icons

notes-icons

Address Book Moded Icon

addressbook

TextEdit

A replacement icon for TextEdit, Notepad.

TextEdit

Documents Icon

documents

Paper Clip

Icon size 512×512px in png

paperclip

Box Icons

Drop Box Icon

dragbox

Boxes

Boxes-53489639

Yeti Box 2

yeti

Web 2.0 and Developer Icons

Free web development icons

Icojoy team’s new 24×24 free icon set in web 2.0 style

free-developer-icon

Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges

nice-simple-subscribe-badges

Developpers Icons

developer-icons

Fugue Icons

1000 icons are included in PNG format (16×16 pixel).

fugue

RSS feed

17-rss

Site Works

site-under-con

Free Glossy Blogging Icons Set for Bloggers

There are total 12 shiny and modern icons for your blogs. It comes with 3 sizes, 24×24, 36×36 and 48×48 in png format.

free-glossy-blogging-icons

Glossy Member Icons

Glossy Member Icons…4 PNG Files…Easy to change colors…

Glossy-Member

Web 2 Icons

23 freeware “iPhone-like” icons of Web 2 Social Bookmarks and Networks for use in blogs, websites, desktops, softwares.

web-2-icons

Socialize Icons

socialize-icons-set

CssEdit 2 Icon

cssedit2

Website Icons

Website-Icons-Vol-1

Practika

practika-a-free-icon-set

Colourful and pattern Icons

Neon light icon-set

Neon-light-icon-set

Grzanka’s Icons

Icons 128×128 – made in Photoshop – completly in Vector Masks with Layer Style Effects

Grzanka-s-Icons

Wood Styled Icons

Wooden Icons

Wooden-Icons

Wooden Slick Drives

Wooden-Slick-Drives

HD StorageBox

HD-StorageBox-add

Wooden Dashboard

Wooden-Dashboard

Made Of Wood

made-of-wood

Simplicio

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

simplicio-a-free-icon-set

Cartoons and Movies

Icon for Transformers

transformers

TonyTony Chopper

TonyTony-Chopper

Wall-E Theme icon collection

…and a few other themes

wall-e2

Royal Theme icon collection

…and a few other themes

royal

Wall E and EVE Icons

walle

Latex icons set

latex

Food and Sweets Icons

Donuts

donuts

Peppers

peppers

Starbucks coffee icons

starbuck

Candybar Pops Replacement

candybar-pop

Sweets icons set

sweets-incons

Ice Set 4

ice-set4

Ice Icons Set 5

ice

Romantic and Vintage

Red Little Shoes Icon set

Red-Little-Shoes-Icon

Vintage

Vintage

KIDAUBIS CHINESE WIND ICON

KIDAUBIS-CHINESE-WIND

Yoritsuki icons

Yoritsuki

Antique Icons

AntiqueIcons

Animal and Creature Icons

Feed Me Animals

feed-me-animals-a-free-rss-feed

Creatures Icons

Creatures-Icons

African Pets Icons

African-Pets-Icons

Green Icons

Flora

flora

Secret Garden

Secret-garden

ICON: EverGreen

ICON-EverGreen

E-commerce and Finance Icons

Shopping Basket Icons 3D

shopping-cart

Ecommerce Icons

32 free e-commerce icons.

Free-eCommerce-icons

General purpose Icons

Light Icons

Light Icons Set. Simple and clean for the websites.

Light-Icons

J3Cons.07.Updated

J3Cons-07-Updated-45651910

Wiped-Out Icons

Wiped-Out-Icons

smile

smile-78472588

Xi4Dox

Xi4Dox

Function Free Icon set

128 glossy Icons available in 48×48px. Some of the main Social Media Icons are included such as: Design Float, Digg, Delicious, Furl, Technorati, Flickr, Stumble Upon, Twitter & Many more…

function-free-icon-set

Icons for site

Icons-for-site

My Favorite Cars

My-Favorite-Cars

DSLR lens Icon

lens

Coquette Icons

This playful free icon set contains curvy and colorful free icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. These free icons flirt with style! “Coquette” 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.

Coquette

iPhone Icons

I-KID ICONS FOR IPHONE

I-KID ICONS FOR IPHONE

iPhone Pack

iPhone icon pack (Phone, Text, Chat, iPod, Notes, System)

iPhone-Pack

Finance and Applications Icon Set

This set contains 59 raster and vector icons, designed by Icon Eden. The set includes icons in .png, .icns and .ico-formats. An .EPS vector file is available as well.

finance-and-applications-a-free-icon-set

Computer Icons

Mouse Category Season

Mouse-category-Season

iTunes Dock Icons

512×512 px.

itunes

Misc Computer Icons 2

heylove created different sets of computer icons. Find more here.

Misc-Computer-Icons-2

Misc computer Icons part2

heylove created different sets of computer icons. Find more here.

Misc-computer-Icons-part2

Random COMPUTER Icons

heylove created different sets of computer icons. Find more here.

Random-COMPUTER-Icons

{ 11 comments… read them below or add one }

Matthew Heidenreich March 29, 2009 at 11:23 pm

I’ve seen most of them, but there are some that are new to me…thanks for sharing.

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Rahul March 30, 2009 at 5:53 am

[b]This is a Jumbo list of Icon Sets. [/b] Cheers.

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Tato April 9, 2009 at 9:30 am

Wow , This Jumbo pack of Icons is Very Very Good!
I Will put it on my Blog

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John1185 April 28, 2009 at 11:14 pm

Very nice site!

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John1550 May 1, 2009 at 6:05 am

Very nice site!

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Adam May 27, 2009 at 9:29 am

Would be better if you listen them in sections. Commerical use and non commercial use!

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tripwiremag May 27, 2009 at 4:45 pm

@Adam Thanks for you input. I agree that it could be another good way to organize the icons.

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steve June 29, 2009 at 5:24 pm

These are fantastic there are way to many to choose from. The black carbon gloss icon designs kick some butt…

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juan iconshock May 12, 2010 at 10:52 pm

HI, I’m juan Sarmiento from iconshock.com, the largest icon design company, I’ve noted you have some icon posts, and I think our free icon section could be useful:
http://www.iconshock.com/icon_sets/ Feel free to include our icons whenever you want in ur posts :)

Thanks a lot
Juan Sarmiento
http://twitter.com/iconshock

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hermes handbags July 9, 2010 at 2:42 am

These are fantastic there are way to many to choose from. The black carbon gloss icon designs kick some butt…

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hermes handbags July 9, 2010 at 3:15 am

This is a Jumbo list of Icon Sets. Cheers.

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